Metadata Aggregator - Issues with XMLSignatureSigningStage

[Chad La Joie]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 09:44, Dan McLaughlin
<dmclaughlin at tech-consortium.com> wrote:
> Is this something you plan to fix soon? If so, I'll wait to test it.

No, it'll be at least a few more weeks before I switch back to working
on the aggregator.

> 1) Doesn't the fact that the SP is modifying the metadata before
> placing it in the backingfile invalidate the signature?  May it
> doesn't matter once the SP has consumed it, but I'm still curious.

Depends on what is being modified.  If it's outside the signature,
then no it won't affect anything.

> 2) Is the SP modifying the metadata only because the MDA didn't
> generate it properly to begin with?

The MDA will generate invalid XML in some cases (there are issues for
those in the wiki), but in those cases the SP would fail to accept it
at all.  You'd have to ask Scott exactly what the SP does, with
metadata it accepts prior to writing it to its backup file.  Chance
are he isn't reading this thread since he doesn't have anything to do
with the MDA (nor is this an MDA question).

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