Re: [xml] c14n - UNICODE normalization

[Tres Seaver <tseaver zope com>]

On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 08:38, Rich Salz wrote:
> > If I'm not mistaken, the c14n.c doesn't handle UNICODE normalization.
> 
> I'm not sure what Unicode normalization is, but you're probably right. :)
> The code in c14n (and exc-c14n) implement canonicalization useful for
> XML Digital signatures. See http://www.w3.org/Signature for details.
> 
> > It should be possible to use the normalization code from IBM's ITU
> > (http://www-124.ibm.com/icu/index.html), as it's under the
> > X License, but the ITU codebase is rather huge and I don't know
> > how easy it would be to extract a small normalization module.
> 
> I seem to recall some postings on xml-dev that a couple of folks tried
> to do this and failed.  It's apparently not really feasible to take
> "just a piece" of ICU.

Zope3 does this.  You are right, it is the classic "take a sip from a
spitoon" problem.

Tres.
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