Re: [xml] XPath 2 support?

[Aleksey Sanin <aleksey aleksey com>]

XPath2 Transform in dsig is just another way of using XPath 1.0 spec
and has nothinig to do with XPath 2.0 spec.

Aleksey

Matthias Jung wrote:
> 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