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XML Canonicalization Version 1.1 Errata

This document:
http://www.w3.org/2008/05/xml-c14n11-errata.html
Last revised:
$Date: 2009/12/09 07:55:50 $ by $Author: roessler $
This document records known errors in the document:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n11/

About this document

This document lists known errata to the Recommendation. Each entry has the following information:

  1. A unique identifier
  2. The date it was added to the errata page
  3. A classification of the error (e.g., editorial, clarification, bug, known problem with the document itself)
  4. A short description of the problem and what part of the Recommendation is affected.
  5. Any proposed corrections and whether those corrections would affect conformance of documents or software
  6. Any normative corrections; see the section on Errata Management in the W3C Process Document ([PROCESS] section 7.6.1) for more information about normative corrections

Known Errors

E11-01: Correction to example in 3.8

Added:
2008-09-16
Accepted:
XML Security WG Meeting Record, 2008-08-26
Raised:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xmlsec-maintwg/2008Jun/0021.html
Class:
editorial
Affects conformance:
No

The example in section 3.8 should have the following canonical form:

<e1 xmlns="http://www.ietf.org" xmlns:w3c="http://www.w3.org" xml:base="something/else"><e3 xmlns="" id="E3" xml:base="bar/foo" xml:space="preserve"></e3></e1>

(The xml:base attribute on <e3> is incorrect in the specification.)

E11-02: Clarification of input model

Added:
2009-12-09
Accepted:
XML Security WG meeting record, 2009-12-08
Raised:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xmlsec/2009Jul/0067.html
Class:
editorial
Affects conformance:
no

The first sentence of the second paragraph of section 2.1 is changed from:

The first parameter of input to the XML canonicalization method is either an XPath node-set or an octet stream containing a well-formed XML document.

to:

The first parameter of input to the XML canonicalization method is either an octet stream or an XPath node-set. If it is an octet stream, the octet stream must contain a well-formed XML document.