- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:06:22 +0200
- To: www-html@w3.org
- Cc: www-html-editors@w3.org
Hi,
The canonical form of XML documents af defined by [XMLC14N] is not
usable for XHTML since it doesn't take the additional whitespace
normalization requirements of [XHTML10] into account. I encourage the
HTML WG to publish a note/recommendation that defines "Canonical XHTML".
This is basically very simple since it could simply say
The canonical form of an XHTML document is the result of applying the
normalizing whitespace according to to section 3.2 of XHTML 1.0 and
applying the rules of Canonical XML 1.0 to the document.
This would be usable for applications focussed on XHTML documents as for
example search engines trying to determine whether something significant
was changend in a certain XHTML document.
[XMLC14N] http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xml-c14n-20010315
[XHTML10] http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xhtml1-20000126
regards,
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