XML Glossary
Under construction. Currently acronyms, etc. only.
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| CGM | Computer Graphics Metafile |
| CSS | Cascading Style Sheets |
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| DOM | Document Object Model. |
| DSSSL | Document Style Semantics & Specification Language |
| DTD | Document Type Definition. An XML Schema, defining grammar or structure, and nesting of content. |
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| GML | Generalized Markup Language |
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| HML | Hypertext Markup Language |
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| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
| ISO | International Standards Organization |
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| MathML | Mathematical Markup Language. An XML Vocabulary |
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| Namespace | Used to assign unique names, by giving a context. |
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| OASIS | Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards |
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| RDF | Resource Description Language - for metadata |
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| Schema | Mechanism for declaring constraints |
| SGML | Standardized Generalized Markup Language (ISO 8879) |
| SMIL | Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language |
| Style sheets | E.g. CSS, XSL. |
| SVG | Scalable Vector Graphics. For 2-dimensional graphoc objects. |
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| Valid | Well-formed, validated against a DTD or similar (with <!Doctype Declaration to match). |
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| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium |
| Well-formed | Conforming to XML rules, e.g. matching start & end tags for all elements, a single root elemenet, correctly-formatted empty elements, correct nesting, attribute variables in quotes. |
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| XHTML | eXtensible HyperText Markup Language. HTML as a suite of XML tag sets. |
| Xlink | An XML Linking Language |
| XML | eXtensible Markup Language |
| Xpath | An XML Linking Language |
| Xpointer | An XML Linking Language |
| XSL | eXtensible Style Language |
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