Re: [xml] XML and canonicalization

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:37:04PM +0100, Marius Kjeldahl wrote:
> I'm working on a project which require messages to be signed using a 
> <Signature> tag inside the XML document. This again requires canonicalization 
> of the xml document before signing, and I am having trouble finding 
> utilities/code that demonstrate canonicalization.
>
> According to the homepage of the XML C library for Gnome (libxml2), this may 
> be supported already - the homepage says:
>
> "Canonical XML Version 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n and the Exclusive 
> XML Canonicalization CR draft http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-exc-c14n "
>
> I've searched through the mailing list archives and the include files for 
> libxml2, but I can not find anything related to canonicalization in libxml2.

  get the code source there is a testC14N.c test program.

> I've also checked the expat library, and according to the docs, calling xmlwf 
> with the -d parameter supposedly generate canonical xml output. When I test 

  It's not the same kind of canonicalization

> Anyway, do you know about the status on canonicalisation on the the gnome xml 
> projects (libxml2 and gdome2), and/or have other information about where I can 
> get actual code using any library that does canonicalization?

   get the source of the latestsi version it's in there.
      ftp://xmlsoft.org/

Daniel

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