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population

From XSL Transformations (XSLT) 2.0 (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source

The sequence of items to be grouped, which is referred to as the population, is determined by evaluating the XPath expression contained in the select attribute.
population order

From XSL Transformations (XSLT) 2.0 (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source

The population is treated as a sequence; the order of items in this sequence is referred to as population order
practice

From The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P1.0) Specification (2002-04-16) | Glossary for this source

The set of disclosures regarding data usage, including purpose, recipients, and other disclosures.
pragma

From XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source

A pragma is denoted by the delimiters (# and #), and consists of an identifying QName followed by implementation-defined content.
pre-defined function

From Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 2.0 (2001-02-21) | Glossary for this source

One of the empty elements defined in Section 4.2.3 [Functions, Operators and Qualifiers] and used with the apply construct to build function applications.
preceding element

From Glossary of Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 CSS2 Specification (1998-05-12) | Glossary for this source

An element A is called a preceding element of an element B, if and only if (1) A is an ancestor of B or (2) A is a preceding sibling of B.
predefined entity reference

From XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source

A predefined entity reference is a short sequence of characters, beginning with an ampersand, that represents a single character that might otherwise have syntactic significance.
predicate

From XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source

A predicate consists of an expression, called a predicate expression, enclosed in square brackets. A predicate serves to filter a sequence, retaining some items and discarding others.
predicate

From XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0 (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source

A predicate consists of an expression, called a predicate expression, enclosed in square brackets. A predicate serves to filter a sequence, retaining some items and discarding others.
preference

From Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 1.0 (2004-01-15) | Glossary for this source

An attribute of a sender or receiver (often the receiver) which indicates a preference to generate or process one particular type of message content over another, even if both are possible.
preference

From The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P1.0) Specification (2002-04-16) | Glossary for this source

A rule, or set of rules, that determines what action(s) a user agent will take. A preference might be expressed as a formally defined computable statement (e.g., the [APPEL] preference exchange language).
presentation elements

From Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 2.0 (2001-02-21) | Glossary for this source

MathML tags and entities intended to express the syntactic structure of mathematical notation (defined in Chapter 3 [Presentation Markup]).
presentation layout schema

From Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 2.0 (2001-02-21) | Glossary for this source

A presentation element that can have other MathML elements as content.
presentation markup

From Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (2000-02-03) | Glossary for this source

"Presentation markup" is markup language that encodes information about the desired presentation or layout of the content. For example, Cascading Style Sheets ([CSS1], [CSS2]) can be used to control fonts, colors, aural rendering, and graphical positioning. Presentation markup should not be used in place of structural markup to convey structure. For example, authors should mark up lists in HTML with proper list markup and style them with CSS (e.g., to control spacing, bullets, numbering, etc.). Authors should not use other CSS or HTML incorrectly to lay out content graphically so that it resembles a list.
presentation token element

From Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 2.0 (2001-02-21) | Glossary for this source

A presentation element that can contain only parsed character data or the malignmark element.
preserve

From XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes (2001-05-02) | Glossary for this source

No normalization is done, the value is not changed (this is the behavior required by for element content)
primary expressions

From XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source

Primary expressions are the basic primitives of the language. They include literals, variable references, context item expressions, constructors, and function calls. A primary expression may also be created by enclosing any expression in parentheses, which is sometimes helpful in controlling the precedence of operators.
primary expressions

From XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0 (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source

Primary expressions are the basic primitives of the language. They include literals, variable references, context item expressions, and function calls. A primary expression may also be created by enclosing any expression in parentheses, which is sometimes helpful in controlling the precedence of operators.
primitive simple types

From XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model (XDM) (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source

There are 23 primitive simple types: the 19 defined in of and xs:untyped, xs:untypedAtomic, xs:anyAtomicType, xs:dayTimeDuration, and xs:yearMonthDuration
principal

From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source

A system entity whose identity can be authenticated. [X.811]


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