The Canonical XML spec does not explain "c14n". Is it an abbreviation or something?
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- Leetspeak for clan
What does it stand for?
The Canonical XML spec does not explain "c14n". Is it an abbreviation or something?
What does it stand for?
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c14n is the abbreviation of Canonicalization. It is used to make sure that our xml document is in a standard and consistent form.
These kinds of abbreviations are like a commonly seen trend, it basically means that while abbreviating 14 letters were omitted between c and n
The main aim of this is to make sure that semantically similar XML documents should have the same hash or signature.
c14nis a numerical contraction for canonicalization — there are 14 characters between thecand then. Numerical contractions are used beyond XML.Another common numerical contraction is
i18nfor internationalization.