[XML-SIG] Fwd: Re: XML-DSIG interop test vectors

Joseph Reagle reagle@w3.org
Wed, 25 Sep 2002 13:13:23 -0400


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c14n.pymakes a number of simplifying assumptions and consequently doesn't 
correctly serialize many "exotic" subsets. For instance, if an element is 
selected by XPath, then all of its attributes are rendered regardless of 
whether they are in the selected subset. Since I recently encountered this 
question in the context of a specific test, I added two tweaks that does 
the right thing: before an attribute is added to xml_attrs or other_attrs, 
I check to see if it's in the subset.

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Subject: Re: XML-DSIG interop test vectors
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:24:56 -0400
From: Joseph Reagle <reagle@w3.org>
To: "Ari Kermaier" <arik@phaos.com>

On Monday 23 September 2002 01:11 pm, Ari Kermaier wrote:
> The result of the location path in this case is the set of all nodes in
> the document.

Right, resulting from:  (//. | //@* | namespace::*)

> The predicate is then applied to each node in the location path set,
> resulting in true or false for each node.

So for every node, we're testing with the predicate [@*] which as an
expression "selects all the attributes of the context node". So this
evaluates to true for the "player" element.

> This is true for the <player/> element node
> (which has 3 attributes), but should be false for all other nodes in the
> document because they have no attributes. In particular, the attribute
> nodes owned by the <player/> element have no attributes themselves, so
> the predicate should evaluate to false for them, and they should be
> excluded from the final result.

Because they are not in the subset. Ok, I understand now, and the pyXML
 code isn't very instructive on this front because it (stupidly) renders
 every attribute, not testing whether each attribute itself is in the
 nodeset. When I do, the result is as you say:
nodelist is [<Element Node at 824352c: Name='player' with 3 attributes and
 9 children>]

<player></player>

Did you get a response from anyone else? If not, you could always feed to
Aleksey's script.
  http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/xmldsig-verifier.html

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#! /usr/bin/env python
'''XML Canonicalization

This module generates canonical XML of a document or element.
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xml-c14n-20010315
and includes a prototype of exclusive canonicalization
    http://www.w3.org/Signature/Drafts/xml-exc-c14n

Requires PyXML 0.7.0 or later.

Known issues if using Ft.Lib.pDomlette:
    1. Unicode
    2. does not white space normalize attributes of type NMTOKEN and ID?
    3. seems to be include "\n" after importing external entities?

Note, this version processes a DOM tree, and consequently it processes
namespace nodes as attributes, not from a node's namespace axis. This
permits simple document and element canonicalization without
XPath. When XPath is used, the XPath result node list is passed and used to
determine if the node is in the XPath result list, but little else.

Authors:
    "Joseph M. Reagle Jr." <reagle@w3.org>
    "Rich Salz" <rsalz@zolera.com>

$Date: 2002/04/26 21:22:00 $ by $Author: reagle $
'''

_copyright = '''Copyright 2001, Zolera Systems Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
Copyright 2001, MIT. All Rights Reserved.

Distributed under the terms of:
  Python 2.0 License or later.
  http://www.python.org/2.0.1/license.html
or
  W3C Software License
  http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software-19980720
'''

import string
from xml.dom import Node
try:
    from xml.ns import XMLNS
except:
    class XMLNS:
        BASE = "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/"
        XML = "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"
try:
    import cStringIO
    StringIO = cStringIO
except ImportError:
    import StringIO

_attrs = lambda E: (E.attributes and E.attributes.values()) or []
_children = lambda E: E.childNodes or []
_IN_XML_NS = lambda n: n.namespaceURI == XMLNS.XML
_inclusive = lambda n: n.unsuppressedPrefixes == None


# Does a document/PI has lesser/greater document order than the
# first element?
_LesserElement, _Element, _GreaterElement = range(3)

def _sorter(n1,n2):
    '''_sorter(n1,n2) -> int
    Sorting predicate for non-NS attributes.'''

    i = cmp(n1.namespaceURI, n2.namespaceURI)
    if i: return i
    return cmp(n1.localName, n2.localName)


def _sorter_ns(n1,n2):
    '''_sorter_ns((n,v),(n,v)) -> int
    "(an empty namespace URI is lexicographically least)."'''

    if n1[0] == 'xmlns': return -1
    if n2[0] == 'xmlns': return 1
    return cmp(n1[0], n2[0])

def _utilized(n, node, other_attrs, unsuppressedPrefixes):
    '''_utilized(n, node, other_attrs, unsuppressedPrefixes) -> boolean
    Return true if that nodespace is utilized within the node'''

    if n.startswith('xmlns:'):
        n = n[6:]
    elif n.startswith('xmlns'):
        n = n[5:]
    if (n=="" and node.prefix in ["#default", None]) or \
        n == node.prefix or n in unsuppressedPrefixes: 
            return 1
    for attr in other_attrs:
        if n == attr.prefix: return 1
    return 0

#_in_subset = lambda subset, node: not subset or node in subset
_in_subset = lambda subset, node: subset is None or node in subset # rich's tweak

class _implementation:
    '''Implementation class for C14N. This accompanies a node during it's
    processing and includes the parameters and processing state.'''

    # Handler for each node type; populated during module instantiation.
    handlers = {}

    def __init__(self, node, write, **kw):
        '''Create and run the implementation.'''
        self.write = write
        self.subset = kw.get('subset')
        self.comments = kw.get('comments', 0)
        self.unsuppressedPrefixes = kw.get('unsuppressedPrefixes')
        nsdict = kw.get('nsdict', { 'xml': XMLNS.XML, 'xmlns': XMLNS.BASE })
        
        # Processing state.
        self.state = (nsdict, {'xml':''}, {}) #0422
        
        if node.nodeType == Node.DOCUMENT_NODE:
            self._do_document(node)
        elif node.nodeType == Node.ELEMENT_NODE:
            self.documentOrder = _Element        # At document element
            if not _inclusive(self):
                self._do_element(node)
            else:
                inherited = self._inherit_context(node)
                self._do_element(node, inherited)
        elif node.nodeType == Node.DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE:
            pass
        else:
            raise TypeError, str(node)


    def _inherit_context(self, node):
        '''_inherit_context(self, node) -> list
        Scan ancestors of attribute and namespace context.  Used only
        for single element node canonicalization, not for subset
        canonicalization.'''

        # Collect the initial list of xml:foo attributes.
        xmlattrs = filter(_IN_XML_NS, _attrs(node))

        # Walk up and get all xml:XXX attributes we inherit.
        inherited, parent = [], node.parentNode
        while parent and parent.nodeType == Node.ELEMENT_NODE:
            for a in filter(_IN_XML_NS, _attrs(parent)):
                n = a.localName
                if n not in xmlattrs:
                    xmlattrs.append(n)
                    inherited.append(a)
            parent = parent.parentNode
        return inherited


    def _do_document(self, node):
        '''_do_document(self, node) -> None
        Process a document node. documentOrder holds whether the document
        element has been encountered such that PIs/comments can be written
        as specified.'''

        self.documentOrder = _LesserElement
        for child in node.childNodes:
            if child.nodeType == Node.ELEMENT_NODE:
                self.documentOrder = _Element        # At document element
                self._do_element(child)
                self.documentOrder = _GreaterElement # After document element
            elif child.nodeType == Node.PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE:
                self._do_pi(child)
            elif child.nodeType == Node.COMMENT_NODE:
                self._do_comment(child)
            elif child.nodeType == Node.DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE:
                pass
            else:
                raise TypeError, str(child)
    handlers[Node.DOCUMENT_NODE] = _do_document


    def _do_text(self, node):
        '''_do_text(self, node) -> None
        Process a text or CDATA node.  Render various special characters
        as their C14N entity representations.'''
        if not _in_subset(self.subset, node): return
        s = string.replace(node.data, "&", "&amp;")
        s = string.replace(s, "<", "&lt;")
        s = string.replace(s, ">", "&gt;")
        s = string.replace(s, "\015", "&#xD;")
        if s: self.write(s)
    handlers[Node.TEXT_NODE] = _do_text
    handlers[Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE] = _do_text


    def _do_pi(self, node):
        '''_do_pi(self, node) -> None
        Process a PI node. Render a leading or trailing #xA if the
        document order of the PI is greater or lesser (respectively)
        than the document element.
        '''
        if not _in_subset(self.subset, node): return
        W = self.write
        if self.documentOrder == _GreaterElement: W('\n')
        W('<?')
        W(node.nodeName)
        s = node.data
        if s:
            W(' ')
            W(s)
        W('?>')
        if self.documentOrder == _LesserElement: W('\n')
    handlers[Node.PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE] = _do_pi


    def _do_comment(self, node):
        '''_do_comment(self, node) -> None
        Process a comment node. Render a leading or trailing #xA if the
        document order of the comment is greater or lesser (respectively)
        than the document element.
        '''
        if not _in_subset(self.subset, node): return
        if self.comments:
            W = self.write
            if self.documentOrder == _GreaterElement: W('\n')
            W('<!--')
            W(node.data)
            W('-->')
            if self.documentOrder == _LesserElement: W('\n')
    handlers[Node.COMMENT_NODE] = _do_comment


    def _do_attr(self, n, value):
        ''''_do_attr(self, node) -> None
        Process an attribute.'''

        W = self.write
        W(' ')
        W(n)
        W('="')
        s = string.replace(value, "&", "&amp;")
        s = string.replace(s, "<", "&lt;")
        s = string.replace(s, '"', '&quot;')
        s = string.replace(s, '\011', '&#x9')
        s = string.replace(s, '\012', '&#xA')
        s = string.replace(s, '\015', '&#xD')
        W(s)
        W('"')


    def _do_element(self, node, initial_other_attrs = []):
        '''_do_element(self, node, initial_other_attrs = []) -> None
        Process an element (and its children).'''

        # Get state (from the stack) make local copies.
        #   ns_parent -- NS declarations in parent
        #   ns_rendered -- NS nodes rendered by ancestors
        #        ns_local -- NS declarations relevant to this element
        #   xml_attrs -- Attributes in XML namespace from parent
        #       xml_attrs_local -- Local attributes in XML namespace.
        ns_parent, ns_rendered, xml_attrs = \
                self.state[0], self.state[1].copy(), self.state[2].copy() #0422
        ns_local = ns_parent.copy()
        xml_attrs_local = {}

        # Divide attributes into NS, XML, and others.
        other_attrs = initial_other_attrs[:]
        in_subset = _in_subset(self.subset, node)
        for a in _attrs(node):
            if a.namespaceURI == XMLNS.BASE:
                n = a.nodeName
                if n == "xmlns:": n = "xmlns"        # DOM bug workaround
                ns_local[n] = a.nodeValue
            elif a.namespaceURI == XMLNS.XML:
                if _inclusive(self) or (in_subset and  _in_subset(self.subset, a)): #020925 Test to see if attribute node in subset
                    xml_attrs_local[a.nodeName] = a #0426
            else:
                if  _in_subset(self.subset, a):     #020925 Test to see if attribute node in subset
                    other_attrs.append(a)
            #add local xml:foo attributes to ancestor's xml:foo attributes
            xml_attrs.update(xml_attrs_local)

        # Render the node
        W, name = self.write, None
        if in_subset: 
            name = node.nodeName
            W('<')
            W(name)

            # Create list of NS attributes to render.
            ns_to_render = []
            for n,v in ns_local.items():

                # If default namespace is XMLNS.BASE or empty,
                # and if an ancestor was the same
                if n == "xmlns" and v in [ XMLNS.BASE, '' ] \
                and ns_rendered.get('xmlns') in [ XMLNS.BASE, '', None ]:
                    continue

                # "omit namespace node with local name xml, which defines
                # the xml prefix, if its string value is
                # http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace."
                if n in ["xmlns:xml", "xml"] \
                and v in [ 'http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace' ]:
                    continue


                # If not previously rendered
                # and it's inclusive  or utilized
                if (n,v) not in ns_rendered.items() \
                  and (_inclusive(self) or \
                  _utilized(n, node, other_attrs, self.unsuppressedPrefixes)):
                    ns_to_render.append((n, v))

            # Sort and render the ns, marking what was rendered.
            ns_to_render.sort(_sorter_ns)
            for n,v in ns_to_render:
                self._do_attr(n, v)
                ns_rendered[n]=v    #0417

            # If exclusive or the parent is in the subset, add the local xml attributes
            # Else, add all local and ancestor xml attributes
            # Sort and render the attributes.
            if not _inclusive(self) or _in_subset(self.subset,node.parentNode):  #0426
                other_attrs.extend(xml_attrs_local.values())
            else:
                other_attrs.extend(xml_attrs.values())
            other_attrs.sort(_sorter)
            for a in other_attrs:
                self._do_attr(a.nodeName, a.value)
            W('>')

        # Push state, recurse, pop state.
        state, self.state = self.state, (ns_local, ns_rendered, xml_attrs)
        for c in _children(node):
            _implementation.handlers[c.nodeType](self, c)
        self.state = state

        if name: W('</%s>' % name)
    handlers[Node.ELEMENT_NODE] = _do_element


def Canonicalize(node, output=None, **kw):
    '''Canonicalize(node, output=None, **kw) -> UTF-8

    Canonicalize a DOM document/element node and all descendents.
    Return the text; if output is specified then output.write will
    be called to output the text and None will be returned
    Keyword parameters:
        nsdict: a dictionary of prefix:uri namespace entries
                assumed to exist in the surrounding context
        comments: keep comments if non-zero (default is 0)
        subset: Canonical XML subsetting resulting from XPath
                (default is [])
        unsuppressedPrefixes: do exclusive C14N, and this specifies the
                prefixes that should be inherited.
    '''
    if output:
        apply(_implementation, (node, output.write), kw)
    else:
        s = StringIO.StringIO()
        apply(_implementation, (node, s.write), kw)
        return s.getvalue()

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