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Re: Canonicalization software

• To: "xml-dev@lists. xml. org" <xml-dev@l...>,"Elliotte Rusty Harold" <elharo@m...>
• Subject: Re: Canonicalization software
• From: "Karl Waclawek" <karl@w...>
• Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 21:39:44 -0500
• References: <p06010202bc4308035ffb@[192.168.254.4]>

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <elharo@m...>

> I'd like to compare the output of the canonicalizer in XOM with an 
> independent effort, since there doesn't seem to be any official test 
> suite for canonical XML.
> 
> So far I've established that IBM's XSS4J and Elcel's xmlcanon are too 
> buggy to be useful. libxml may work, but it's not clear if there's 
> any user interface that lets me canonicalize samples aside without 
> writing C code. Is there any canonicalization program which runs on 
> Linux, does not require a complicated build process, and provides a 
> simple command line interface?

James Clark wrote a program called "xmlwf" which ships with Expat.
It has an option to turn an XML document into its canonical form, 
but I think the definition of canonical XML used by James Clark 
at the time he wrote it, is not current anymore.

Karl

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