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- Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Pluggable canonical XML
- From: richard@... (Richard Tobin)
- Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:04:05 +0100 (BST)
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- In-reply-to: <42E6720B.9090101@...>
- Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
In article <42E6720B.9090101@...> you write:
>You're a bit
>mistaken about the "original vision of canonical XML" as c14n and
>exc-c14n were created by the DSIG folks. :)
It has a longer history than that...
The original canonical XML was defined by James Clark around 1998 as an
output format for his test suite (http://jclark.com/xml/canonxml.html).
That format (with minor additions) is still used in the W3C/NIST XML
test suite (http://www.w3.org/XML/Test/).
Canonicalization was taken up by the XML Syntax WG, inherited by the
XML Core WG, and transferred to the DSIG WG in 2000.
-- Richard
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