Re: Fw: Signing of XSL scripts

Subject: Re: Fw: Signing of XSL scripts
From: Paul Prescod <papresco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 10:02:20 -0400
Martin Bryan wrote:
> 
> It is beginning to look as if the use of ECMAScript may lead to some
> problems with system security unless there is a change in the way in which
> scripts can be authenticated in Internet Explorer. For input/output to a
> local system from Internet Explorer you need to use properly signed (i.e.
> signed by the Microsoft Authenticode) ActiveX objects or JavaBeans. 

Why would XSL stylesheets need to do input/output? Their input is the
element tree (not a file) and the output should be a node tree (not a
file).

 Paul Prescod  - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

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