Re: [xsl] What is a better word for "de-duplication"?

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:33 PM 8/28/2006, Andrew wrote:
> Wendell Piez wrote:
>
> > Dear Dimitre,
> >
> > At 08:41 PM 8/27/2006, you wrote:
> >
> > > I want to use a single, short word to express the act of removing
> > > duplicates from a node-set. I remember seing the word "de-duplication"
> > > used, however it sounds ugly.
> Normalisation

Normalization (or 'normalisation' for those who prefer British 
orthography) would rather be the general process of transforming a 
set of values into their normalized forms. So,

<date value="2006">May Day 2006</date>
<date value="2006-05-01"/>
<date value="5-1-2006">May 1 2006</date>

might be normalized as

<date value="2006-05-01">May 1 2006</date>
<date value="2006-05-01">May 1 2006</date>
<date value="2006-05-01">May 1 2006</date>

but this would not deduplicate them.

These are very different problems, especially for XSLT. Generally 
speaking, deduplicating requires normalization first since 
deduplication works only over canonical forms (or comparing them to 
see which are duplicates becomes very difficult).

Cheers,
Wendell