XML Encryption is a new standard defined by W3C, which defines the encryption of data, afterwards representing it as XML. It can encrypt virtually any type of data, including arbitrary data, an XML element and an XML element content.
The result of the data encryption is an XML document, which contains the encrypted data or a link to it. It has been called XML encryption or XML-enc because an XML element refers to or contains the cipher text, keyring information and the algorithms used for encrypting the data. For deciphering the encrypted data, XML
In a minority opinion, Eve Maler and Paul Grosso suggest that "that XPointer would benefit from offering the option of a much more modest feature set."
Maler and Grosso propose something much smaller than the complete XPointer proposal, "along the lines of our FIXptr proposal (W3C member only), that accords with the deployment and implementation patterns seen to date."
FIXptr has apparently seen independent implementation, at much lower cost than full XPointer implementation:
"It may be worth noting that several of the vendors involved in
Abstract:
This document proposes a facility, similar to that of HTML BASE, for defining base URIs for parts of XML documents.
Status of this Document:
This document has been reviewed by W3C Members and other interested parties and has been endorsed by the Director as a W3C Recommendation. It is a stable document and may be used as reference material or cited as a normative reference from another document. W3C's role in making the Recommendation is to draw attention to the specification and to promote its widespread deployment. This enhances the
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