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Difference between "normalize" and "canonicalize"?

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2009-02-25T11:38:20Z
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Difference between "normalize" and "canonicalize"?
Hi Folks,

Consider these two sentences:


1. When an XML parser reads in an XML document it normalizes all line breaks to \n.  

2. A canonicalizer tool will canonicalize empty elements to start-tag, end-tag pairs.


Both "normalize" and "canonicalize" seem to mean:

   Put into a standard form.

Do they in fact mean the same thing? If so, why have two terms? Why not have just one term?

/Roger
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