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