Canonical XML Advanced to Candidate Recommendation

W3C is pleased to announce that Canonical XML 1.0 has become a Candidate Recommendation. This specification describes a method for determining whether two XML documents with differing syntactical representations are actually equivalent in this specification's XML data model (based on XPath). This permits applications such as digital signatures to determine whether an application has substantively changed a document beyond syntactical variances permitted by XML 1.0 and Namespaces in XML. Canonical XML is produced by the XML Signature Working Group, a joint effort of the IETF and W3C.