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- convenience
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From Glossary of Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML Specification (2003-01-09)
A convenience method is an operation on an object that could be accomplished by a program consisting of more basic operations on the object. Convenience methods are usually provided to make the API easier and simpler to use or to allow specific programs to create more optimized implementations for common operations. A similar definition holds for a convenience property.
- data model
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From Glossary of Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML Specification (2003-01-09)
A data model is a collection of descriptions of data structures and their contained fields, together with the operations or functions that manipulate them.
- DOM level 0
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From Glossary of Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML Specification (2003-01-09)
The term "DOM Level 0" refers to a mix (not formally specified) of HTML document functionalities offered by Netscape Navigator version 3.0 and Microsoft Internet Explorer version 3.0. In some cases, attributes or methods have been included for reasons of backward compatibility with "DOM Level 0".
- HTML
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From Glossary of Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML Specification (2003-01-09)
The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a simple markup language used to create hypertext documents that are portable from one platform to another. HTML documents are SGML documents with generic semantics that are appropriate for representing information from a wide range of applications. [HTML 4.01]
- language binding
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From Glossary of Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML Specification (2003-01-09)
A programming language binding for an IDL specification is an implementation of the interfaces in the specification for the given language. For example, a Java language binding for the Document Object Model IDL specification would implement the concrete Java classes that provide the functionality exposed by the interfaces.
- live
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From Glossary of Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML Specification (2003-01-09)
An object is live if any change to the underlying document structure is reflected in the object.
- tokenized
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From Glossary of Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML Specification (2003-01-09)
The description given to various information items (for example, attribute values of various types, but not including the StringType CDATA) after having been processed by the XML processor. The process includes stripping leading and trailing white space, and replacing multiple space characters by one. See the definition of tokenized type.
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