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facet

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

From XML Schema [XML Schema part 2]: A single defining aspect of a value space. Generally speaking, each facet characterizes a value space along independent axes or dimensions.

facilities

From XHTML 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition) (2000-01-26) | Glossary for this source

Facilities are elements, attributes, and the semantics associated with those elements and attributes.
fatal error

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

An error which a conforming XML processorMUST detect and report to the application. After encountering a fatal error, the processor MAY continue processing the data to search for further errors and MAY report such errors to the application. In order to support correction of errors, the processor MAY make unprocessed data from the document (with intermingled character data and markup) available to the application. Once a fatal error is detected, however, the processor MUST NOT continue normal processing (i.e., it MUST NOT continue to pass character data and information about the document's logical structure to the application in the normal way).
fatal error

From XML Inclusions (XInclude) (2004-12-20) | Glossary for this source

The term fatal error refers to the presence of factors that prevent normal processing from continuing.
fatal error

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

An error which a conforming XML processor must detect and report to the application. After encountering a fatal error, the processor may continue processing the data to search for further errors and may report such errors to the application. In order to support correction of errors, the processor may make unprocessed data from the document (with intermingled character data and markup) available to the application. Once a fatal error is detected, however, the processor must not continue normal processing (i.e., it must not continue to pass character data and information about the document's logical structure to the application in the normal way).
feature

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

Functional property of a device or entity.
fellow

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

n. A W3C Team member employed by a W3C Member organization, on loan to W3C. syn: Visiting Engineer.
fences

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

In typesetting, bracketing tokens like parentheses, braces, and brackets, which usually appear in matched pairs.
FIA (Form interpretation algorithm)

From Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) Version 2.0 (2004-03-16) | Glossary for this source

An algorithm implemented in a VoiceXML interpreter which drives the interaction between the user and a VoiceXML form or menu. See Section 2.1.6 and Appendix C .
filter

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

transformation applied to an array of scanlines with the aim of improving their compressibility. PNG uses only lossless (reversible) filter algorithms.
filter expression

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

A filter expression consists simply of a primary expression followed by zero or more predicates. The result of the filter expression consists of the items returned by the primary expression, filtered by applying each predicate in turn, working from left to right.
filter expression

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

A filter expression consists simply of a primary expression followed by zero or more predicates. The result of the filter expression consists of the items returned by the primary expression, filtered by applying each predicate in turn, working from left to right.
filtering

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

The setting up of criteria to select a subset of data from a broad stream of it. Filtering information is essential for everyone in daily life. Filtering by parents of small children may be wise. Filtering by others- ISPs or governments- is bad, and is called censorship.
final output

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

The first of the two output states is called final output state. This state applies when instructions are writing to a final result tree.
final result tree

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

A final result tree is a result tree that forms part of the final output of a transformation. Once created, the contents of a final result tree are not accessible within the stylesheet itself.
first node rule

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

When a UI Single-Node Binding attribute selects a node-set of size > 1, the first node in the node-set is used.

first-hand

From Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 (1999-06-15) | Glossary for this source

A response is first-hand if it comes directly and without unnecessary delay from the origin server, perhaps via one or more proxies. A response is also first-hand if its validity has just been checked directly with the origin server.
flexible authoring

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18) | Glossary for this source

An authoring style in which an appropriate set of variants of each resource is created for use in the user experience for each delivery context.
Flexible authoring lies within a spectrum of authoring styles bounded at one end by single authoring and at the other by multiple authoring.
focus

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

When a sequence constructor is evaluated, the processor keeps track of which items are being processed by means of a set of implicit variables referred to collectively as the focus.
focus

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

The first three components of the dynamic context (context item, context position, and context size) are called the focus of the expression.

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