Re: [xml] XPath 2 support?

[Matthias Jung <matthias jung xtradyne com>]

Daniel Veillard wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 11:12:29AM +0200, Matthias Jung wrote:
>  
>
> > xmlsec supports XPath2 on top of libxml.
> > Ok, it uses XPath2 for digital signature puropse, but maybe its 
> > implementation does also help.
> >    
>
>  First time I heard that XML DSig requires XPath2. I think there
> is some confusion, it does reference XPath1 not 2 clearly !
>  http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/#sec-XPath
>
>  The only addition is here() which is actually similar to the XPointer
> one, not something fron XPath2.
>
>  
Correct, but xmlsec implements some more transformations than dsig spec 
requires.
These are not very good documented, but exist ;-)  XPath 2 is one of them.
I am not sure about spec coverage of the implemantation, maybe Aleksey 
can bring light into this.

Matthias

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