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   Re: Why the Infoset?

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  • From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
  • To: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@icl.com>, "xml-dev@xml.org" <xml-dev@xml.org>
  • Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 13:03:19 -0400

Kay Michael wrote:

> We now have the perverse situation that the core infoset of a
> document does not contain enough information to generate its canonical form,
> and the canonical form does not contain enough information to generate its
> core infoset.

Don't assume that Canonical XML is "the" canonical form.  It is a specialized
form suitable for digital signatures, and perhaps for little else.  It is
not equivalent to normalized XML in concept.

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