[ltans] Canonicalization

Markus Isler <isler@keyon.ch> Wed, 25 April 2012 08:42 UTC

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From: Markus Isler <isler@keyon.ch>
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Hi

I have a question regarding Canonicalization of XML elements. According to 3.2.2 archive data has to be canonicalized before hashing it.

Supposed we are archiving files of arbitrary format. Does this mean that we have check each file whether it is a valid XML file? I hope this is not the case.

Regards
Markus