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machine understandable

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

Data that is described with tags that associate a meaning to the data (i.e., an "author" tag would describe the author of the document), allowing data to be searched or combined and not just displayed.
main module

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

A main module consists of a Prolog followed by a Query Body.
manageable service

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

A Web service becomes a manageable service with additional semantics, policy statements, and monitoring and control (or management) capabilities (exposed via a management interface) all for the purpose of managing the service.

management

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

The utilization of the management capabilities by the management system in order to perform monitoring of values, tracking of states and control of entities in order to produce and maintain a stable operational environment.

management capability

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

Capabilities that a Web service has for the purposes of controlling or monitoring the service, and that can be exposed to a management system for the sole purpose of managing the service.

management interface

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

Interface through which the management capabilities of a service are exposed.

management policy

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

Policy associated with a Web service solely for the purpose of describing the management obligations and permissions for the service.

management semantics

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

The management semantics of a service augment the semantics of a service with management-specific semantics. These management semantics form the contract between the provider entity and the requester entity that expresses the effects and requirements pertaining to the management and management policies for a service.

MARC record

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source

A standard for machine-readable library catalogue cards.
markup

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

Markup takes the form of start-tags, end-tags, empty-element tags, entity references, character references, comments, CDATA section delimiters, document type declarations, processing instructions, XML declarations, text declarations, and any white space that is at the top level of the document entity (that is, outside the document element and not inside any other markup).
markup

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

Markup takes the form of start-tags, end-tags, empty-element tags, entity references, character references, comments, CDATA section delimiters, document type declarations, processing instructions, [E89]XML declarations, text declarations, and any white space that is at the top level of the document entity (that is, outside the document element and not inside any other markup).
markup declaration

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

A markup declaration is an element type declaration, an attribute-list declaration, an entity declaration, or a notation declaration.
markup declaration

From Modularization of XHTML (2001-04-10) | Glossary for this source

a syntactical construct within a DTD declaring an entity or defining a markup structure. Within XML DTDs, there are four specific types: entity declaration defines the binding between a mnemonic symbol and its replacement content; element declaration constrains which element types may occur as descendants within an element (see also content model); attribute definition list declaration defines the set of attributes for a given element type, and may also establish type constraints and default values; notation declaration defines the binding between a notation name and an external identifier referencing the format of an unparsed entity.
markup declaration

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

A markup declaration is an element type declaration, an attribute-list declaration, an entity declaration, or a notation declaration.
markup language

From Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (2000-02-03) | Glossary for this source

Authors encode information using a "markup language" such as HTML [HTML4], SVG [SVG], or MathML [MATHML].
markup model

From Modularization of XHTML (2001-04-10) | Glossary for this source

the markup vocabulary (i.e., the gamut of element and attribute names, notations, etc.) and grammar (i.e., the prescribed use of that vocabulary) as defined by a document type definition (i.e., a schema) The markup model is the concrete representation in markup syntax of the document model, and may be defined with varying levels of strict conformity. The same document model may be expressed by a variety of markup models.
match

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

(Of strings or names:) Two strings or names being compared MUST be identical. Characters with multiple possible representations in Unicode (e.g. characters with both precomposed and base+diacritic forms) match only if they have the same representation in both strings. No case folding is performed. (Of strings and rules in the grammar:) A string matches a grammatical production if it belongs to the language generated by that production. (Of content and content models:) An element matches its declaration when it conforms in the fashion described in the constraint .
match

From XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes (2001-05-02) | Glossary for this source

(Of strings or names:) Two strings or names being compared must be identical. Characters with multiple possible representations in ISO/IEC 10646 (e.g. characters with both precomposed and base+diacritic forms) match only if they have the same representation in both strings. No case folding is performed. (Of strings and rules in the grammar:) A string matches a grammatical production if it belongs to the language generated by that production.
match

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

(Of strings or names:) Two strings or names being compared must be identical. Characters with multiple possible representations in ISO/IEC 10646 (e.g. characters with both precomposed and base+diacritic forms) match only if they have the same representation in both strings. [E85]At user option, processors may normalize such characters to some canonical form. No case folding is performed. (Of strings and rules in the grammar:) A string matches a grammatical production if it belongs to the language generated by that production. (Of content and content models:) An element matches its declaration when it conforms in the fashion described in the constraint .
mathematical markup language (MathML)

From Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 2.0 (2001-02-21) | Glossary for this source

The markup language specified in this document for describing the structure of mathematical expressions, together with a mathematical context.

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