Re: Additional test cases for Exclusive XML Canonicalization

On Tuesday 02 April 2002 18:39, NACHIMUTHU,PALANIAPPAN (HP-Cupertino,ex1) 
wrote:
> This is probably a newbie question. In the examples 2, 3 and 4 there's an
> additionalNSPrefixes value next to the xpath expression. Where shd this
> be used, and how? Is it supposed to be passed to the XPath evaluator? (I
> don't see an API to pass multiple namespace nodes in the Xalan XPath
> implementation...)

Not a newbie question as I asked the same question earlier for pyXML [1]! 
<smile/> c14n.py has a means of taking additional prefixes, and I just 
added an option for the xpath/test command line and test harness. However, 
I'm still not sure how to pass the default ns to the python xml libraries 
-- that' s something I need to dig more on. In terms of API for our own 
(thtis WG's) tests, I'd prefer that the parameter be a string of white 
space delimited series of prefix:values and '#default' be the key word, but 
whomever sends the tests dictates their form. <smile/>

[1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/xml-sig/2002-April/007527.html