[jdom-interest] XML Signature

[Elliotte Harold]

Per Norrman wrote:

>
> I aware of that and I've used it a few times, btw. However, the problem
> here is the heavy use of XPath in XML Signature. Some of the transforms
> tend to be quite 'esoteric'. And since there is an XPath function, id(),
> which we cannot support (unless we provide custom Document, Element and
> SAXBuilder classes,  plus custom Saxon or Jaxen JDOM wrappers), there is
> a chance/risk that a JDOM XML Signature will fail on validation.
>

Why do you think you can't support this? JDOM provides access to 
attribute type information, so you can tell which attributes are IDs.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo at metalab.unc.edu