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Canonicalization is used for a variety of computer and Internet-related applications. In a sendmail context, canonification (or canonicalization) describes the process used to complete Mail-From addresses where necessary on incoming messages. When the canonify feature is turned on, a defined default domain name is added to the user name on an incoming message, so that username is translated to username@domain. Within the Extensible Markup Language (XML), canonicalization ensures that an XML document adheres to the specified format. The term canonicalization may have been coined to avoid using the term for the process of establishing a person's sainthood -- canonization. It is also possible that the first coiner of the term hadn't heard of canon and canonize and created new terms out of the adjectival canonical, sometimes used in describing formal elements of a specification. 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