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Database applications
Software that facilitates communication between a human user and a database.
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Canonical equivalence
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A basic equivalence between characters or sequences of characters. For example, ç is equivalent to the combination of c and ,. They cannot be distinguished when they are correctly rendered.
Diacritic
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A mark near or through a character or combination of characters that indicates a different sound than the sound of the character without the diacritical mark. For example, the cedilla in façade is a ...
Java virtual machine
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The Java interpreter that converts the compiled Java bytecode into the machine language of the platform and runs it. JVMs can run on a client, in a browser, in a middle tier, on a Web, on an ...
Element
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The basic logical unit of an XML document that may serve as a container for other elements as children, data, attributes, and their values. Elements are identified by start-tags, <name> and ...
Entity
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A string of characters that may represent either another string of characters or special characters that are not part of the document's character set. Entities and the text that is substituted for ...
Hypertext
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The method of creating and publishing text documents in which users can navigate between other documents or graphics by selecting words or phrases designated as hyperlinks.
Namespace
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The term to describe a set of related element names or attributes within an XML document. The namespace syntax and its usage is defined by a W3C Recommendation. For example, the <xsl:apply-template ...
