Dims, all,
just looked at CanonicalizerBase and did a quick test. Unfortunatly it also handles CDATA in a wrong way - it handles CDATA like standard Text nodes, i.e. C14nBase converts all special chars into Entities and serialize CDATA as standard text without the "[!CDATA[....]]" sequence. I don't know if this is by purpose or a bug.
This is correct. Canonical XML does not any include any CDATA sections, regardless of whether the original text uses them or not.
I haven't looked into the C14n specs if they require CDATA to be converted into Text befor Signature, that is all special character like <, >, etc. converted into Entities like < , > .
It does.
IMO, for encryption serialization CDATA shall be serialized as CDATA element without Entity conversion. Otherwise it may give problems when we first sign that element, then encrypt it. In addition CDATA implies a "preserve space" behavior. Is that true for standard Text nodes too?
CDATA sections imply no such thing. They no more or less preserve space than any non-CDATA section. Generally white space should be preserved, but CDATA sections have nothing to do with this. You seem to be attributing semantics properties to CDATA sections that are not justified by the XML specification.
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