OpenSAML user discussion

["Scott Cantor" <>]

> "no such thing as ignorable whitespace" - even with exclusive
> canonicalization? The point of canonicalization is that it is supposed
> to render functionally identical XML physically identical.

No, it's not. It's goal is to turn a node set into an octet stream. How it
does that depends on the algorithm, but excl c14n is absolutely NOT
insensitive to whitespacem, because XML is absolutely whitespace sensitive.

> So, for instance,
> 
> "<Elem1><Elem2/></Elem1>"
> 
> should be identical to:
> 
> "<Elem1>
> <Elem2/>
> </Elem1>"

And that's not the same XML.
 
-- Scott