- From: Paul W. Abrahams <abrahams@valinet.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:00:47 -0400
- To: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- CC: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>, "xml-uri@w3.org" <xml-uri@w3.org>
John Cowan wrote: > Al Gilman wrote: > > > XML has proper methods: string to InfoSet, InfoSet to string. Starting and > > ending with an Infoset, the pair of transformations is an identity, you get > > back the same InfoSet. After passing through InfoSet once, you thereafter > > get back a canonical string. > > The Infoset does not define a single canonicalization back to XML syntax. > There is something called "Canonical XML", but that is special-purpose and > deliberately does not make every distinction that the Infoset does. As long as the Infoset to XML transformation takes sets to sequences, and no order is specified for the resulting sequences, the transformation is not canonic. Paul Abrahams
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