At 8:43 AM +0900 7/8/05, Martin Duerst wrote:
Just a clarification that I may have made previously: XML Canonicalization
(both kinds) convert to UTF-8 from whatever encoding your document or
fragment is, so essentially, we are signing characters, not bits.

Er, right. And we change the bits again to deal with whitespace and attribute ordering and all those other bits.

We are signing canonicalized bits.

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