[XML-SIG] c14n and subset

Rich Salz rsalz at datapower.com
Fri Oct 17 07:40:25 EDT 2003


> Looking at the code in c14n.py it appears that all the proper logic is
> there (and the use of subset getting rule #1 right is encouraging), but
> honestly my head is spinning with all it's recursion and terse comments.

yes.

> I'm hoping that perhaps c14n.py can do what I need (an exc c14n of an
> xpath subset of a doc) and that my initial test of using a sub-element
> as the lone arg to Canonicalize (my filed bug) is a known limitation.

no known limitations in the code.  just bugs.

	/r$

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