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<glossary id="glossary"><?dbhtml filename="glossary.html">
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<title>Glossary</title>
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<glossentry>
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<glossterm>attribute</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>One attributte makes available extra information regarding the
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element on which it appears. The attributes always appear as a
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name-value pair on the initialization pointers. Example of an
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attribute is <parameter
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class="option">id="identification"</parameter>, which gives to the
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attribute <parameter class="option">id</parameter> the value
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<parameter class="option">identification</parameter>.</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry>
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<glossterm>Document Type Definition
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(<acronym>DTD</acronym>)</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para> Group of statements that define element names and their attributes
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specifying the rules for combinations and sequences. It's the
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<acronym>DTD</acronym> that define which elements can or cannot
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be inserted in the context on which the cursor is in.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry>
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<glossterm><acronym>DSSSL</acronym></glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para><acronym>DSSSL</acronym> stands for Document Style Semantics and
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Specification Language. It's an <acronym>ISO</acronym> standard
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(ISO/IEC 10179:1996). The <acronym>DSSSL</acronym> standard is
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internationally used as a language for documents stylesheets pages for
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<acronym>SGML</acronym>.</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry>
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<glossterm>element</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>The elements define the hierarchical structure of a document. The
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majority of elements have opening and closing pointers. Among these
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pointers, pieces of text or even the whole document being written can
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be found. There are empty elements which contains only opening
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pointers without any content.</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry>
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<glossterm>entity</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>Entity is a name designated for some part of data so that it can be
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referenced by a name. These designations are made by a statement and
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the stored data might hold from simple characters to chapters or set
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of statements of a <acronym>DTD</acronym>. There are parameter
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entities generic, external, internal and of data on
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the<acronym>SGML</acronym>.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry>
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<glossterm>external entity</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>An external entity points to an external document. External entities
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are used to include texts on certain locations of a
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<acronym>SGML</acronym> document. Suggestions for its use includes
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sample screens, legal notes and chapters.</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry>
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<glossterm>generic entities</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>An entity referenced by a name which starts with
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<quote>&</quote> and ends with semicolon is a generic
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entity. Most of the time these type of entities are used on the
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document and not on the <acronym>DTD</acronym>. There are two types
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of entities: external and internal which refers either to special
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characters or to text objects such as repeated sentences, names or
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chapters.</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry>
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<glossterm>internal entity</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>An internal entity refers to part of the text and is often used
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as a schortcut for portions of a text frequently repeated.</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry>
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<glossterm>parameter entity</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>An entity often used on the <acronym>DTD</acronym>. The entity's
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name starts with a percent sign (%) and it ends with a
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semicolon.</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry>
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<glossterm>float</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>Objects such as side bars, pictures, tables and charts are called
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floats when they don't have a fixed placement on the text. For a
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printed text, the chart can appear either at the top or at the
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bottom of the page. It can also be placed on the next page if that's
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too large.</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry>
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<glossterm>processing instruction</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>A processing instruction is a command passed to the document
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formatting tool. It starts with <quote><?</quote>. A sample
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of instruction is used on this document for the generated file's
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choice when the file is converted to
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<acronym>HTML</acronym>: <sgmltag class="starttag">?dbhtml
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filename="file.html"</sgmltag></para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry>
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<glossterm><acronym>SGML</acronym></glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para><foreignphrase>Standard Generalized Markup
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Language</foreignphrase>.
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It's also an international standard (<acronym>ISO</acronym>8879) which
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specifies rules for the creation of electronic documents in markup
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systems regardless the work platform used.</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry>
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<glossterm>tag</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>An <acronym>SGML</acronym> element bounded by the marks
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<quote><</quote> and <quote>></quote>. Tags are used
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to mark the semantic or the structure of a document. A sample
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is the tag <emphasis><sgmltag
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class="starttag">title</sgmltag></emphasis> to mark the beginning
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of a title.</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry>
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<glossterm><acronym>XML</acronym></glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>eXtensible Markup Language. A subproduct of <acronym>SGML</acronym>
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created specifically for Internet use.</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry>
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<glossterm><acronym>XSL</acronym></glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para><acronym>XML</acronym> Style
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Language. XSL is to a <acronym>XML</acronym> document what a
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<acronym>DSSSL</acronym> style is for a <acronym>SGML</acronym>
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document. In fact, the style is a document
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<acronym>XML</acronym>.</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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</glossary>
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