• From: Richard Salz <rsalz@u...>
• To: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@C...>
• Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:40:05 -0500

> 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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• References:
  • Re: Difference between "normalize" and "canonicalize"?
    • From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@C...>