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daemon

From Hypertext Terms (1995-04-15) | Glossary for this source

A program which runs independently of, for example the browser . Daemons may perform various management tasks such as building indexes , overviews, and back-links . Under unix, "daemon" is used for " server ", because servers normally run independently.
data category

From The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P1.0) Specification (2002-04-16) | Glossary for this source

A significant attribute of a data element or data set that may be used by a trust engine to determine what type of element is under discussion, such as physical contact information. P3P1.0 specifies a set of  data categories.
data element

From The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P1.0) Specification (2002-04-16) | Glossary for this source

An individual data entity, such as last name or telephone number. For interoperability, P3P1.0 specifies a base set of data elements.
data model

From XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source

XQuery operates on the abstract, logical structure of an XML document, rather than its surface syntax. This logical structure, known as the data model, is defined in .
data model

From XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0 (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source

XPath operates on the abstract, logical structure of an XML document, rather than its surface syntax. This logical structure, known as the data model, is defined in .
data model

From Glossary of Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML Specification (2003-01-09) | Glossary for this source

A data model is a collection of descriptions of data structures and their contained fields, together with the operations or functions that manipulate them.
data model schema

From XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source

For a given node in an XDM instance, the data model schema is defined as the schema from which the type annotation of that node was derived.
data model schema

From XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0 (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source

For a given node in an XDM instance, the data model schema is defined as the schema from which the type annotation of that node was derived.
data resource

From Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 1.0 (2004-01-15) | Glossary for this source

A data object that can be transferred across a network. Data resources may be available in multiple representations (e.g. multiple languages, data formats, size, resolutions) or vary in other ways.
data schema

From The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P1.0) Specification (2002-04-16) | Glossary for this source

A collection of data elements and sets defined using the P3P1.0 DATASCHEMA element. P3P1.0 defines a standard data schema called the P3P base data schema.
data set

From The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P1.0) Specification (2002-04-16) | Glossary for this source

A known grouping of data elements, such as "user.home-info.postal". The P3P1.0 base data schema specifies a number of data sets.
data structure

From The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P1.0) Specification (2002-04-16) | Glossary for this source

A hierarchical description of a set of data elements. A data set can be described according to its data structure. P3P1.0 defines a set of basic datastructures that are used to describe the data sets in the P3P base data schema.
data-valued property

From OWL Web Ontology Language Guide (2004-02-10) | Glossary for this source

alternative term for DataType Property
database

From Hypertext Terms (1995-04-15) | Glossary for this source

We have used this vaguely as a term for a collection of nodes . We imagine management information for one of these being kept in one place and all being accessible by the same server . Links outside this are "external", and those inside are "internal". We do not imply anything about how the information shored be stored.
datastream

From Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Second Edition) (2003-11-10) | Glossary for this source

sequence of bytes . This term is used rather than "file" to describe a byte sequence that may be only a portion of a file. It is also used to emphasize that the sequence of bytes might be generated and consumed "on the fly", never appearing in a stored file at all.
datatype

From XForms 1.0 (2003-10-14) | Glossary for this source

From XML Schema [XML Schema part 2]: A 3-tuple, consisting of a) a set of distinct values, called its value space, b) a set of lexical representations, called its lexical space, and c) a set of facets that characterize properties of the value space, individual values or lexical items.

datatype

From OWL Web Ontology Language Guide (2004-02-10) | Glossary for this source

an RDFS datatype, almost always one of the built-in non-list XML Schema datatypes
datatype property

From OWL Web Ontology Language Guide (2004-02-10) | Glossary for this source

an OWL property that relates individuals to data values
date formatting functions

From XSL Transformations (XSLT) 2.0 (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source

The three functions format-date, format-time, and format-dateTime are referred to collectively as the date formatting functions.
date space

From Glossary of W3C Jargon (2003-03-11) | Glossary for this source

The part of the W3C Web Site for which the top level of the hierarchy after www.w3.org is a year number.

The Glossary System has been built by Pierre Candela during an internship in W3C; it's now maintained by Dominique Hazael-Massieux

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