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- character
-
An atom of information, for example a letter or a
digit. Graphic characters have associated glyphs, where as control
characters have associated processing semantics.
- character encoding scheme
-
A function whose domain is the set of
sequences of octets, and whose range is the set of sequences of
characters from a character repertoire; that is, a sequence of octets
and a character encoding scheme determines a sequence of characters.
- character repertoire
-
A finite set of characters; e.g. the range
of a coded character set.
- code position
-
An integer. A coded character set and a code
position from its domain determine a character.
- coded character set
-
A function whose domain is a subset of the
integers and whose range is a character repertoire. That is, for some
set of integers (usually of the form {0, 1, 2, ..., N} ), a coded
character set and an integer in that set determine a
character. Conversely, a character and a character set determine the
character's code position (or, in rare cases, a few code positions).
- conforming HTML user agent
-
A user agent that conforms to this
specification in its processing of the Internet Media Type
`text/html; version=2.0'.
- data characters
-
Characters other than markup, which make up the
content of elements.
- DTD
-
document type definition. @@ A collection of
declarations (entity, element, attribute, link, map, etc.) in SGML
syntax that defines the components and structures available for a
class (type) of documents. [SGML]
- element
-
@@A component of the hierarchical structure defined by
the document type definition; it is identified in a document instance
by descriptive markup, usually a start-tag and an end- tag. [SGML]
- entity
-
data with an associated notation or interpretation; for
example, a sequence of octets associated with an Internet Media Type. [SGML]
- HTML document
-
An SGML document conforming to this document type
definition.
- markup
-
Syntactically delimited characters added to the data of a
document to represent its structure. There are four different kinds of
markup: descriptive markup (tags), references, markup declarations,
and processing instructions.[SGML]
- may
-
The implementation is not obliged to follow this in any way.
- message entity
-
a head and body. The head is a collection of
name/value fields, and the body is a sequence of octets. The head
defines the content type and content transfer encoding of the body. [MIME]
- minimally conforming HTML user agent
-
A user agent that conforms
to this specification in its treatment of the Internet Media Type
"text/html; level=0; version=2.0"
- must
-
If this is not followed, the implementation does not
conform to this specification.
- SGML document
-
A set of entities, including the document entity,
which is a text entity that conforms to the grammar specified in the
SGML standard.[SGML]
- shall
-
If a document or user agent conflicts with this statement,
it does not conform to this specification.
- should
-
If a document or user agent conflicts with this
statement, undesirable results may occur in practice even though the
document or user agent conforms to this specification.
- tag
-
Markup that delimits an element. A tag includes a name which
refers to an element declaration in the DTD, and may include
attributes.[SGML]
- text entity
-
A finite sequence of characters. A text entity
typically takes the form of a sequence of octets with some associated
character encoding, transmitted over the network or stored in a file.[SGML]
- typical
-
Typical rendering is described for many elements. This
is not a mandatory part of the specification but is given as guidance
for designers and to help explain the uses for which the elements were
intended.
- URI
-
A Universal Resource Identifier is a formatted string that
serves as an identifier for a resource, typcally on the Internet. URIs
are used in HTML to identify the destination of hypertext links, the
source of in-line images, and the object of form actions. URIs in
common use include Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)[URL]
and Relative URLs[RELURL].
- user agent
-
A component of a distributed system that presents
an interface and processes requests on behalf of a user; for example,
a www browser or a mail user agent.
- WWW
-
The World-Wide Web is a hypertext-based, distributed
information system created by researchers at CERN in
Switzerland. Users may create, edit or browse hypertext
documents. `http://www.w3.org/'
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