Glossary

home document
the document from which WWW starts if no specific document is given.
presentation
the way things appear on the screen of the user's station.
interactive document
a document from which links can be followed.
foreign
any software or document constructed without taking the existence of WWW into account.
www
(adjective) any software or document constructed taking the existence of WWW into account.
format
the markup "language" used to impress structure and/or layout on the contents of a document. Each document has only one source format. See encoding.
encoding
the mapping used to store the contents of a document, eg. ASCII, EBCDIC, uuencode. Several encodings may be used on top of each other. See format.
navigation
getting from anchor to anchor
anchor
the starting point or the end point of a link. The starting point is called the tail anchor, the end is called the head anchor. Following a link means going from its starting anchor to its ending anchor. Both places may be in the same document.
link
connection between two places in the web.
index
a special kind of document that points in a generic fashion to a set of related documents. Keywords are needed to complete the link from the index document to a particular document of the set. Example: a phone book is an index, a document with the name and coresponding phone number can be found only by giving extra information in a search panel.
UDI
Universal Document Identifier. A string in 7-bit ASCII identifying the meaning of a document by specifying its address and optionally some constraints, or the address and constraints of a possibly arbitrary algorithm to construct the contents of the document.
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