XML Digital Signature throws NAMESPACE_ERR exception under OpenJDK 11 that works under Java SE 8, 9 and 10

Sean Mullan sean.mullan at oracle.com
Fri Feb 15 21:27:04 UTC 2019


On 2/14/19 5:54 PM, Joe Wang wrote:
>> his is the ASCII code for a carriage return, encoded in XML. I don't 
>> know why that behavior is different in JDK 11. This would be a 
>> question for the XML developers. I have copied Joe Wang, to see if he 
>> might know.
> 
> Hi Sean,
> 
> There hasn't been functional change to that area between JDK 10 and 11 
> that I'm aware of. If you believe there's a behavior change, or you 
> could isolate the issue down to the java.xml/xml processor, please file 
> a bug.  I'll be happy to investigate.

Never mind, I determined that this was a change in the way XML signature 
data was being base64 encoded. It seems like an innocuous change though 
and doesn't appear to break anything.

--Sean



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