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Overcome variations with Canonical XML

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by Mark W. Kaelin

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The Nov. 20, XML TechMail discusses the Canonical XML standard and its attempt to overcome some of the problems associated with variations in acceptable XML formats. Have you adopted Canonical XML for your XML documents? Tell us why or why not.

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by Member 24355076

Most of the XML libraries use the standard DOM/SAX interfaces that will hide the variations inside the XML document.

So why should you use the canonical version, if it is equal easy to use the original document ?

by austinite

can't find it. either:

1) your intra-site searching lags significantly behind your content

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2) your TechMail content isn't available from the website. this would be rather silly, considering that your TechMails are large and not likely to be archived by individual recipients.

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3) something else entirely. but in any case i'm pretty put off that i can't produce the article (deleted from my inbox after reading, see "size complaint" above) for use in an argument witha coworker.

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