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Hi,
I am putting together a deliverable on canonicalization, and I am trying to understand what a canonicalized XML document looks like in a byte array. More specifically, vendors like Apache have a canonicalizer function that takes in the XML in byte format as a parameter, and outputs the canonicalized XML into a byte array (where each slot contains octets).
Coming from a non-technical background, I don't quite understand how canonicalized XML can be put into a byte array. Can anyone explain how the byte array looks/what information is contained in each slot?
From my understanding, each slot of the output byte array contains 8-bytes. What does each of these 8-bytes represent? One XML element? One XML attribute?
I'm just looking for a simple answer, like, the canonicalized XML is cut up into 8-byte chunks and put into the byte array?
Please help ASAP. THANKS!!
Beth
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