World Wide Web Consortium issues exclusive Canonical XML as a W3C recommendation; New XML specification furthers portable digital signatures.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-18 July 2002-W3C: World Wide Web Consortium issues exclusive Canonical XML as a W3C recommendation; New XML specification furthers portable digital signatures (C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07182002 The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today announced the release of Exclusive XML Canonicalization as a W3C Recommendation.

This specification augments the previous Canonical XML Recommendation to better enable a portion of an XML document (i.e., a fragment) to be as portable as possible while preserving the digital signature. It works in combination with XML Signatures, the W3C Recommendation produced jointly by W3C and the IETF in February, representing cross-industry agreement on an XML-based language for digital signatures. A...