XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

John Cowan wrote:

> A quick look at Canonicalizer.java for XOM 1.1d5 suggests (and I
> haven't tested this) that it propagates xml:* attributes to children
> in both whole documents and fragments.  This is contrary to Canonical
> XML 1.0, which restricts such behavior to "when an XPath node-set is
> given as input and the element's parent is omitted from the node-set"
> (section 2.4, paragraph 2).

Would this test case identify this issue?

Start with this document:

<root xml:lang="en"><a><b>test</b></a></root>

Choose the document subset selected by /root//node() | //@*

and expect to see

<a xml:lang="en"><b>test</b></a>

I really wish there was a test suite for exclusive XML canonicalization.

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