Re: Canonical MicroXML

or, better,  'singular'
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Stephen D Green



On 2 October 2012 14:59, Stephen D Green <stephengreenubl@gmail.com> wrote:

> 'single' ?
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> Stephen D Green
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> On 2 October 2012 14:37, Uche Ogbuji <uche@ogbuji.net> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Stephen D Green <
>> stephengreenubl@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Why / in what sense "unique"? I think I know what is meant
>>> but it could be taken the wrong way. Clearly two documents
>>> can have identical canonical versions and therefore neither
>>> be 'unique'.
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>> But each c14n would be unique in respect to a particular transform.
>>  James's wording is clearly talking about the range, not the domain.  In
>> other words the output of a c14n transform is unique even though its inputs
>> need not be.  I'm not sure it would be clearer to use wording to the effect
>> that it's a many to one transform.
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