[xmlsec] Xml exclusive c14n

Alex Boese alexanderashleyboese at gmail.com
Mon Feb 23 10:14:36 PST 2015


I was noticing that exclusive canonicalization seems to differ between the lxml and xmlsec implementations. In my observations, if I exclusive c14n an entire xml document utilizing the lxml, namespaces that are unused are completely dropped. With xmlsec, if I do the same, they remain. 

By unused, I'm meaning a namespace with prefix that has no matching prefixed tags in children tags.

Is this deliberate behavior? If so, why the difference?

-Alex


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