Re: [xml-dev] Difference between "normalize" and "canonicalize"?

[Richard Salz <rsalz@us.ibm.com>]

> Personally, I see "normalization" as changing the information into 
> something that is common, while "canonicalization" is representing 
> something in a common way without changing it.

I don't think that works.  XML Canonicalization, for example, normalizes 
whitespace and line endings.

English has both big and large and seems to do okay.

        /r$

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