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03-05-2014 01:42 AM |
Canonicalization is the process of converting data that involves more than one representation into a standard approved format. Such a conversion ensures that data conforms to canonical rules. This compares different representations to assure equivalence, to count numbers of distinct data structures, to impose a meaningful sorting order and to improve algorithm efficiency, thus eliminating repeated calculations.
Canonicalization is used in numerous Internet and computer applications to generate canonical data from noncanonical information. Canonical representation of data is widely used in
search engine optimization (SEO), Web servers, Unicode and XML.
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