Re: New XMLP Issue Relating to Canonical Forms

At 4:53 PM -0400 10/9/03, [email protected] wrote:


>* The SOAP Rec is unambiguous, to be a SOAP binding you must preserve the
>Infoset, which means you must preserve the characters even if in
>non-canonical form (especially since SOAP doesn't even know about types!)
>If it's an integer, you must preserve leading zeros, and if it's
>base64Binary you must preserve whitespace, etc.
>

Given that SOAP already forbids the document type declaration, I 
don't think XML canonicalization would affect any of these things. 
XML canonicalization does not perform Unicode normalization on text, 
nor does it remove leading zeroes, trim white space, etc. I think the 
only part of the infoset canonicalization affects involves the 
document type declaration (canonicalization removes it) but SOAP 
doesn't allow that in the first place.
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   Elliotte Rusty Harold
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