It's a new one on me too, but it's in the dictionary:

https://www.yourdictionary.com/monkey-patch

Not sure what the difference is from a regular patch.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

> On 30 Jul 2020, at 10:51, Michele R Combs mrrothen@xxxxxxx
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> "monkey patch" ?
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> Michele
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> From: "Willem Van Lishout willemvanlishout@xxxxxxxxx"
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> Thanks everyone.
> What I did is monkey patch Xerces to skip the normalization for
attributes....