Glossary

Some of the following term definitions have been borrowed or modified from similar definitions in other W3C or standards documents.

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• 16-bit unit
• ancestor
• API
• anonymous type name
• child
• client application
• COM
• convenience
• data model
• descendant
• document element
• document order
• ECMAScript
• element
• information item
• logically-adjacent text nodes
• hosting implementation
• HTML
• inheritance
• interface
• language binding
• local name
• method
• model
• namespace prefix
• namespace URI
• namespace well-formed
• object model
• parent
• partially valid
• qualified name
• read only node
• root node
• schema
• sibling
• string comparison
• token
• tokenized
• well-formed
• XML

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