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> 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? A canonical term, perhaps? Or a normalized one? Yes, they mean the same thing (when used generically). Of course, particular kinds of normalization or canonicalization use one or the other: e.g. Unicode normalization, XML canonicalization. >Why not have just one term? People like inventing new words when they think an existing word already has overloaded meanings. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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