Canonical XML went to CR on 26 October

[David_Marston@lotus.com]

The W3C's spec for Canonical XML has now moved forward to
Candidate Recommendation status. See
http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-xml-c14n-20001026
for the spec itself. This phase ends 24 November unless
surprises occur.

The relevance to our project is that we can plan on the
existence of a standard and probably some tools that will
neutralize "unimportant" differences in XML files. This will
allow delivery of "correct output" files for each test case
that produces XML output that will be able to be compared
with actual output from any given processor. Actually, I
wouldn't be surprised if generate-id() results will need
human scanning, but most differences can be neutralized.
.................David Marston