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The term round-trip is used in document conversion particularly involving markup languages such as XML and SGML. Round-tripping consists of converting a document in format A (docA) to one in format B (docB) and then back again to format A (docA′). If docA and docA′ are identical then there has been no information loss and the round-trip has been successful.[1] More generally it means converting from any data representation and back again, including from one data structure to another.
- ^ Boyer, John; Gao, Sandy; Malaika, Susan; Maximilien, Michael; Salz, Rich; Simeon, Jerome (2011). "Experiences with JSON and XML Transformations". W3C Workshop on Data and Services Integration. 9.