Re: [xml] c14n: "xmlns:xml" is removed

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 05:03:56PM +0100, Joachim Bauch wrote:
> Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >   Why ? This is actually bad practice...
> > Plus c14n rules are pretty strict and I guess they on-pupose ask to not
> > emit it (I guess I didn't double checked).
>
> The problem is, I have code that generated checksums of XML documents by
> hashing the c14n result.  Now this c14n result of my documents changed and
> so the checksums differ...  Therefore it would be nice if I could add the
> "xmlns:xml" manually before calculating my checksums.
>
> Is there a way to do this?

  Not easilly. libxml2 API refuses to add a new xmlns:xml namespace
so you would have to add a new namespace and modify it then save...

Daniel

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