C
- candidate recommendation
In the standards process, a candidate recommendation is a specification that has achieved enough consensus by its working group to be released for public review. See also recommendation, standards body.
- catalog
A specially formatted text file (usually local) whose information is used to resolve public identifiers into system identifiers. The catalog file format was formally specified by OASIS Technical Resolution 9401:1997. See also formal public identifier, URI.
- CDATA (character data)
CDATA is an entity datatype consisting of non-parsed characters. Entity references included in this data will not be resolved. A CDATA marked section looks like this:
<![CDATA unparsed content]]>
See also PCDATA.
- character encoding
The representation of characters as unique numbers in a character set. See also character set.
- character entity
A notation for any character or symbol that uses its character set number or abbreviation. The common syntax for character encoding is an ampersand (&), followed by the name or a #-sign and number, terminated with a semicolon. For example, the copyright symbol © can be output in a document by using either © or ©.
- character set
A collection of letters, numbers, and symbols representing a language or set of languages, mapped to specified numbers that can be understood by computer programs. See also character encoding.
- comment
Specially marked text in the the document source that is not interpreted by the parser. XML ...
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