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service role

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

An abstract set of tasks which is identified to be relevant by a person or organization offering a service. Service roles are also associated with particular aspects of messages exchanged with a service.

service semantics

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

The semantics of a service is the behavior expected when interacting with the service. The semantics expresses a contract (not necessarily a legal contract) between the provider entity and the requester entity. It expresses the effect of invoking the service. A service semantics may be formally described in a machine readable form, identified but not formally defined, or informally defined via an out of band agreement between the provider and the requester entity.

service-oriented architecture

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

A set of components which can be invoked, and whose interface descriptions can be published and discovered.

session

From Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) Version 2.0 (2004-03-16) | Glossary for this source

A connection between a user and an implementation platform , e.g. a telephone call to a voice response system. One session may involve the interpretation of more than one VoiceXML document .
session

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

A lasting interaction between system entities, often involving a user, typified by the maintenance of some state of the interaction for the duration of the interaction. [WSIA Glossary]

Such an interaction may not be limited to a single connection between the system entities.

set

From OWL Web Ontology Language Guide (2004-02-10) | Glossary for this source

a mathematical set
setters

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

Setters are declarations that set the value of some property that affects query processing, such as construction mode, ordering mode, or default collation.
SGML (Standard generalized markup language)

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source

An international standard in markup languages, a basis for HTML and a precursor to XML.
shadows

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

A binding shadows another binding if the binding occurs at a point where the other binding is visible, and the bindings have the same name.
shall

From XHTML 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition) (2000-01-26) | Glossary for this source

See "Must".
should

From XHTML 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition) (2000-01-26) | Glossary for this source

With respect to implementations, the word "should" is to be interpreted as an implementation recommendation, but not a requirement. With respect to documents, the word "should" is to be interpreted as recommended programming practice for documents and a requirement for Strictly Conforming XHTML Documents.
SHOULD

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

SHOULD means that there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a particular item, but the full implications must be understood and carefully weighed before choosing a different course.
sibling

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

An element A is called a sibling of an element B, if and only if B and A share the same parent element. Element A is a preceding sibling if it comes before B in the document tree. Element B is a following sibling if it comes after B in the document tree.
sibling

From Glossary of Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Events (2000-11-13) | Glossary for this source

Two nodes are siblings if and only if they have the same parent node.
sibling

From Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Traversal and Range Specification (2000-11-13) | Glossary for this source

Two nodes are siblings if and only if they have the same parent node.
simple link

From XML Linking Language (XLink) (2001-06-27) | Glossary for this source

A simple link is a link that associates exactly two resources, one local and one remote, with an arc going from the former to the latter. Thus, a simple link is always an outbound link.
simple links

From XML Linking Language (XLink) (2001-06-27) | Glossary for this source

Simple links offer shorthand syntax for a common kind of link, an outbound link with exactly two participating resources (into which category HTML-style A and IMG links fall). Because simple links offer less functionality than extended links, they have no special internal structure.While simple links are conceptually a subset of extended links, they are syntactically different. For example, to convert a simple link into an extended link, several structural changes would be needed.
simple ruby markup

From Ruby Annotation (2001-05-31) | Glossary for this source

In this specification: Ruby markup that associates a single ruby text with a single ruby base , optionally providing some delimiters such as parentheses for fallback.
simplified stylesheet module

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

A simplified stylesheet module is a tree, or part of a tree, consisting of a literal result element together with its descendant nodes and associated attributes and namespaces. This element is not itself in the XSLT namespace, but it must have an xsl:version attribute, which implies that it must have a namespace node that declares a binding for the XSLT namespace. For further details see .
single authoring

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18) | Glossary for this source

An authoring style in which a single variant of each resource is created and is automatically adapted to produce the user experience for each delivery context. .
Single authoring represents one end of a spectrum of authoring styles that include multiple authoring and flexible authoring. It represents a theoretical extreme that is rarely achieved in practice. Though, theoretically, it offers the minimum development cost, limitations in practical adaptation systems mean that compromises are necessary in the final user experiences. These compromises are often considered unacceptable.

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