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Canonical XML Version 1

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Network Working Group                                           J. Boyer
Request for Comments: 3076                       PureEdge Solutions Inc.
Category: Informational                                       March 2001


                       Canonical XML Version 1.0

Status of this Memo

   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does
   not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of this
   memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2001).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   Any XML (Extensible Markup Language) document is part of a set of XML
   documents that are logically equivalent within an application
   context, but which vary in physical representation based on syntactic
   changes permitted by XML 1.0 and Namespaces in XML.  This
   specification describes a method for generating a physical
   representation, the canonical form, of an XML document that accounts
   for the permissible changes.  Except for limitations regarding a few
   unusual cases, if two documents have the same canonical form, then
   the two documents are logically equivalent within the given
   application context.  Note that two documents may have differing
   canonical forms yet still be equivalent in a given context based on
   application-specific equivalence rules for which no generalized XML
   specification could account.



















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