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From User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (2002-12-17) | Glossary for this source

A collated text transcript is a text equivalent of a movie or other animation. More specifically, it is the combination of the text transcript of the audio track and the text equivalent of the visual track. For example, a collated text transcript typically includes segments of spoken dialogue interspersed with text descriptions of the key visual elements of a presentation (actions, body language, graphics, and scene changes). See also the definitions of text transcript and audio description. Collated text transcripts are essential for individuals who are deaf-blind.

collation

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

Facilities in XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 that require strings to be ordered rely on the concept of a named collation. A collation is a set of rules that determine whether two strings are equal, and if not, which of them is to be sorted before the other.

collation

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

A collation is a specification of the manner in which strings and URIs are compared and, by extension, ordered. For a more complete definition of collation, see .

collation

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

A collation is a specification of the manner in which strings and URIs are compared and, by extension, ordered. For a more complete definition of collation, see .

colour type

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

value denoting how colour and alpha are specified in the PNG image . Colour types are sums of the following values: 1 ( palette used), 2 ( truecolour used), 4 (alpha used). The permitted values of colour type are 0, 2, 3, 4, and 6.

comm

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

n. Communications, in the sense of communication with the public and Members. Primarily the responsibility of the Comm Team , a group within the W3C Team.

comma operator

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

One way to construct a sequence is by using the comma operator, which evaluates each of its operands and concatenates the resulting sequences, in order, into a single result sequence.

comma operator

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

One way to construct a sequence is by using the comma operator, which evaluates each of its operands and concatenates the resulting sequences, in order, into a single result sequence.

comments

From Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1 (2004-02-04) | Glossary for this source

CommentsMAY appear anywhere in a document outside other markup; in addition, they MAY appear within the document type declaration at places allowed by the grammar. They are not part of the document's character data; an XML processor MAY, but need not, make it possible for an application to retrieve the text of comments. For compatibility, the string -- (double-hyphen) MUST NOT occur within comments.

comments

From Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (2000-10-06) | Glossary for this source

Comments may appear anywhere in a document outside other markup; in addition, they may appear within the document type declaration at places allowed by the grammar. They are not part of the document's character data; an XML processor may, but need not, make it possible for an application to retrieve the text of comments. For compatibility, the string -- (double-hyphen) must not occur within comments.

complete

From RDF Semantics (2004-02-10) | Glossary for this source

(adj., of an inference system). (1) Able to detect all entailment s between any two expressions. (2) Able to draw all valid inferences. See Inference . Also used with a qualifier: able to detect entailments or draw all valid inferences in a certain limited form or kind (e.g. between expressions in a certain normal form, or meeting certain syntactic conditions.)

complex ruby markup

From Ruby Annotation (2001-05-31) | Glossary for this source

In this specification: Ruby markup that allows association of two ruby texts with a single base text as well as fine-grained associations between parts of the ruby texts and the base text .

compliance

From W3C QA - Quality Assurance glossary (2003-09-06) | Glossary for this source

This term is deprecated. The QA Working Group recommends to use the word Conformance. See Conformance.

component

From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source

A component is a software object, meant to interact with other components, encapsulating certain functionality or a set of functionalities. A component has a clearly defined interface and conforms to a prescribed behavior common to all components within an architecture. [CCA T&D]
A component is an abstract unit of software instructions and internal state that provides a transformation of data via its interface. [Fielding]
A component is a unit of architecture with defined boundaries.

component

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

for parts of a definition e.g. the arguments to intersection-of in a class definition

composite (verb)

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

to form an image by merging a foreground image and a background image, using transparency information to determine where and to what extent the background should be visible. The foreground image is said to be "composited against" the background.

computed element constructor