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   Re: [xml-dev] canonical xml

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On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 07:25, Rick Jelliffe wrote:
>  From: "Jon Steeves" <Jon_Steeves@pmc-sierra.com>
>  
> > Doesn't the existence of a special version of canonical xml mean that there is no 
> > canonical xml?
> 
> No, it means there are multiple canons (lists) for different purposes.  This is another
> capitalization issue: Canonical XML is not the only canonical XML, just as 
> XML Schemas are not the only XML schemas, and the XML Infoset is not the only
> XML infoset. 

Sure, but that's probably stronger than this in the case of
canonicalization: there cannot be a single canonical XML because
canonicalization is application dependent in a deep and complex
manner...

For instance, if you take W3C XML Schema snippets on which I came across
recently,

<xs:all>
 <xs:element ref="foo"/>
 <xs:element ref="bar"/>
</xs:all>

and

<xs:all>
 <xs:element ref="bar"/>
 <xs:element ref="foo"/>
</xs:all>

are equivalent while

<xs:sequence>
 <xs:element ref="foo"/>
 <xs:element ref="bar"/>
</xs:sequence>

and

<xs:sequence>
 <xs:element ref="bar"/>
 <xs:element ref="foo"/>
</xs:sequence>

are not and a canonicalization process for W3C XML Schema should
probably take this into account!

Elaborating around this no later than this morning on XMLfr, I came to
the conclusion that a formal language to describe canonicalization
processes (probably based on XSLT like Schematron) would be most
useful...

Any volunteers to start?

Eric

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