- advisory committee
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From Glossary of W3C Jargon (2003-03-11) | Glossary for this source
n.
The group consisting of the "official representatives" of
each W3C Member organization.
- Candidate Recommendation (CR)
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From World Wide Web Consortium Process Document (2003-06-18) | Glossary for this source
A Candidate Recommendation is a document that W3C believes has been widely
reviewed and satisfies the Working Group's technical requirements. W3C
publishes a Candidate Recommendation to gather implementation experience.
- comm
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From Glossary of W3C Jargon (2003-03-11) | Glossary for this source
n.
Communications, in the sense of communication with the
public and Members. Primarily the responsibility of the
Comm Team
, a group
within the W3C Team.
- comma operator
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From XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source
One way to construct a sequence is by using the comma operator, which evaluates each of its operands and concatenates the resulting sequences, in order, into a single result sequence.
- comma operator
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From XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0 (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source
One way to construct a sequence is by using the comma operator, which evaluates each of its operands and concatenates the resulting sequences, in order, into a single result sequence.
- comments
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From Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1 (2004-02-04) | Glossary for this source
CommentsMAY appear anywhere in a document outside other markup; in addition, they MAY appear within the document type declaration at places allowed by the grammar. They are not part of the document's character data; an XML processor MAY, but need not, make it possible for an application to retrieve the text of comments. For compatibility, the string -- (double-hyphen) MUST NOT occur within comments.
- comments
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From Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (2000-10-06) | Glossary for this source
Comments may appear anywhere in a document outside other markup; in addition, they may appear within the document type declaration at places allowed by the grammar. They are not part of the document's character data; an XML processor may, but need not, make it possible for an application to retrieve the text of comments. For compatibility, the string -- (double-hyphen) must not occur within comments.
- Proposed Edited Recommendation
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From World Wide Web Consortium Process Document (2003-06-18) | Glossary for this source
A Proposed Edited Recommendation is a technical report that W3C has
published for community review of important
changes
, some of which may affect conformance.
When there is consensus about the edits, the document is published as a
Recommendation.
- Proposed Recommendation (PR)
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From World Wide Web Consortium Process Document (2003-06-18) | Glossary for this source
A Proposed Recommendation is a mature technical report that, after wide
review for technical soundness and implementability, W3C has sent to the W3C
Advisory Committee for final endorsement.
- recommendation
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From Glossary of W3C Jargon (2003-03-11) | Glossary for this source
A technical specification which has been endorsed by the W3C. Similar
to what other standards organizations would call a "Standard".
- Rescinded Recommendation
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From World Wide Web Consortium Process Document (2003-06-18) | Glossary for this source
A Rescinded Recommendation is an entire Recommendation that W3C no longer
endorses.
- RFC (Request for comments)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source
The humble title of the memos which defined and still define
the workings of the Interet. The
Internet
Engineering Task Force
later developed a growing process for
categorizing the status of RFCs, up to a level of "Internet
Standard".
- W3C recommendation
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From W3C QA - Quality Assurance glossary (2003-09-06) | Glossary for this source
A standard agreed upon by the Web industry and community represented in W3C.
- W3C Recommendation (REC)
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From World Wide Web Consortium Process Document (2003-06-18) | Glossary for this source
A W3C Recommendation is a specification or set of guidelines that, after
extensive consensus-building, has received the endorsement of W3C Members and
the Director. W3C recommends the wide deployment of its Recommendations.
Note:
W3C Recommendations are similar to the standards
published by other organizations.