On Aug 19, 2005, at 12:11 PM, Will McCutchen wrote: >> In my current project, I am working with XML data in a protocol that >> has >> checksum/signature verification of a portion of the document. >> ... >> the server sends me XML with empty elements as full open/close tags, >> but toxml() serializes them to the XML empty element (<Element/>), so >> the checksum winds up not matching. > > Does it even make sense to use a checksum to verify XML, since there > are basically[1] infinite ways to validly write equivalent XML data? > > [...] > > Again, I'm sorry because I didn't provide any real useful information, > I just tried to poke holes in your current project.
I would agree that this mechanism doesn't make much sense. It certainly doesn't seem to fit well within the conventions most parsing ideologies; I don't know what parsing mechanism the protocol authors had in mind. Unfortunately, I did not write the protocol... I must merely speak it. - Michael -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
