Ted, Can you please let us know if Xerces dev team will pick this patch up? and when? - http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25853
thanks, dims --- Werner Dittmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > to test the content encryption of XMLCipher I modified the test case of > XML encryption. The modifed test case showed some serious problems > inside XMLCipher as well as in the Xerces XMLSerializer. > > The XML Encryption specification defines Content in the same way > as the XML specification. According to these specs the content of an > element is a DocumentFragment as it can consist of Text nodes, CDATA > sections, comments and so on. Also it is not required to be a valid > XML document. > > With this in mind I modified the relevant code of XMLCipher to treat > Content as a DcumentFragment and have the Xerces XMLSerializer > serialize it. Unfortunatly the XMLSerializer currently does not deal > with DocumentFragment correctly. Please refer to Xerces > Bugzilla reference 25853 and the attachement 9767. Its the bug > report, a test case, and the patch to fix the problems in XMLSerializer. > > The modified XMLCipher content encryption can be used only with > the fixed Xerces code. > > The attachement contains the patch to the XMLCipher (that also > contains some code cleanup). The relevant code that deals > with DocumentFragment is near the end of the patch file. > > If necessary I can provide the a Xerces jar file that contains the > fixed XMLSerializer. > > The questions is, how do we proceed here? > > Regards, > Werner > > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/x-zip-compressed name=XMLCipher-2.zip ===== Davanum Srinivas - http://webservices.apache.org/~dims/
