Re: [dom4j-dev] IBM's XML Security Kit and dom4j

2001-06-25 Thread James Strachan
> Could some of you guys please post a link to all this "Canonical XML" and > "Security Kit" you're talking about? IBM's security suite is here:- http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/aw.nsf/techmain/xmlsecuritysuite Canonical XML spec is here:- http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xml-c14n-20010315 James

Re: [dom4j-dev] IBM's XML Security Kit and dom4j

2001-06-25 Thread Jakob Jenkov
Hey!! Could some of you guys please post a link to all this "Canonical XML" and "Security Kit" you're talking about? Thanks :-) Jakob ___ dom4j-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-dev

Re: [dom4j-dev] IBM's XML Security Kit and dom4j

2001-06-25 Thread toby-wan-kenobi
Hi James, Bob, > >From a usability perspective, it might make sense to put all this > functionality into a single 'Canonicaliser' that is capable of performing > a > C14N of any dom4j Document created in any way (either SAX, DOM or > programatically). > > James I let you both XML Masters decide

Re: [dom4j-dev] IBM's XML Security Kit and dom4j

2001-06-25 Thread James Strachan
Many of the C14N spec can be done at the SAX level as the document is being parsed and this will probably be the most performant way of reading a C14N dom4j document. e.g. all of the following could be done as an XMLFilter (I think) as its mostly involved with text encoding (merging adjacent text

Re: [dom4j-dev] IBM's XML Security Kit and dom4j

2001-06-24 Thread bob mcwhirter
> It makes no sence to create different solutions for one problem ;-). Definitely. Am already planning for the xpath impl to support everything needed by a C14N impl. > By the way. James told me that you and he are working on a complete sax base > xpath processor. Just for clarification, is

Re: [dom4j-dev] IBM's XML Security Kit and dom4j

2001-06-24 Thread toby-wan-kenobi
Hi Bob, > Yah, C14N tends to mostly just be an application of xpath. > > The part that isn't part of the XPath W3C-REC is the 'document order' > of various things. XPath doesn't define the orderings of attributes > or namespaces, and we have to look direclty at the C14N spec to > find that.

Re: [dom4j-dev] IBM's XML Security Kit and dom4j

2001-06-24 Thread bob mcwhirter
> I reviewed the Canonical Spec as I read your comment and agree with you. It > seems to me that most of Canonical Algorithm is part of XPath. Do you > implement > something like XML Information Set Mapping. Could you tell me what is NOT > provided by such a XPath Impl? Following sipplet contai

Re: [dom4j-dev] IBM's XML Security Kit and dom4j

2001-06-24 Thread toby-wan-kenobi
Hi Bob, > Canonical is almost trivial once full xpath (with document-ordering) is > available. And I'm working on that aspect now... > > -bob I reviewed the Canonical Spec as I read your comment and agree with you. It seems to me that most of Canonical Algorithm is part of XPath. Do you impl

Re: [dom4j-dev] IBM's XML Security Kit and dom4j

2001-06-24 Thread James Strachan
Hi Toby From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I think we should implement Canonical XML and XML Signature on top of dom4j > by ourself. Agreed. Especially Canonical XML. > Tell me what you think about this and then I starting with > implementation tomorrow Go for it. Maybe try implementing an CanonicalX

Re: [dom4j-dev] IBM's XML Security Kit and dom4j

2001-06-23 Thread bob mcwhirter
> I think we should implement Canonical XML and XML Signature on top of dom4j > by ourself. Tell me what you think about this and then I starting with > implementation tomorrow. Could become high traffic on this list now ;-) Canonical is almost trivial once full xpath (with document-ordering)