Re: [xml] Canonical XML Implementation

[Aleksey Sanin <aleksey aleksey com>]

> I will take care of it. I'm still wondering about keeping some semi-public
> entry points for those..
Thanks a lot!  C14N applied to the whole document or to the part of it 
specified using
XPath expression (nodes set). I do not think that there is a need for a 
special function
"C14N for a node" or something because you can do the same using XPath 
expression.
I put these functions in a separate header file only because there is a 
recursion (xmlC14NProcessNode()
calls xmlC14NProcessNodesList() and vice versa) so I have to declare at 
least one of them
somewhere (I declared both for symmetry :) ).

> Okay I see. some automated regression testing are needed anyway. 
The test program I have can be used in the same way as existing 
testHTML, testXPath, etc.
It already have exactly the same functionality as required. The only 
thing is that
the file needs to be renamed to testC14N.c to follow libxml2 standards 
:) There is also a shell
script that does testing (xmlc14n/test/test.sh). It could be called from 
Makefile to execute all tests
(it is slightly different from libxml2 way to put shell code in the 
Makefile).

> I was
> also wondering if a function doing the attribute completion from DTD defaulting
> would be useful in case the tree wasn't parsed with the expected flags.
> Can probably be postponed a bit.
Yes. I also thought about such function. There are really 2 tasks: 
substitute all entity
references and add all default attributes. It's a good idea to have such 
functions but
as you said this can wait a bit.


Aleksey.