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W3C Glossaries

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object

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

A platform-specific capability with an interface available via VoiceXML.
object

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

(1) the object of an RDF triple
(2) an alternative term for individual (used for historical reasons)
object property

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

an OWL property that relates individuals to other individuals
obligation

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

An obligation is a kind of policy that prescribes actions and/or states of an agent and/or resource.

obsolete feature

From QA Framework: Specification Guidelines (2005-08-17) | Glossary for this source

An existing or deprecated feature that has ceased to exist and that is listed for historical purpose.
occurs as attribute value

From Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1 (2004-02-04) | Glossary for this source

as a Name, not a reference, appearing either as the value of an attribute which has been declared as type ENTITY, or as one of the space-separated tokens in the value of an attribute which has been declared as type ENTITIES.
occurs as attribute value

From Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (2000-10-06) | Glossary for this source

as a Name, not a reference, appearing either as the value of an attribute which has been declared as type ENTITY, or as one of the space-separated tokens in the value of an attribute which has been declared as type ENTITIES.
office

From Glossary of W3C Jargon (2003-03-11) | Glossary for this source

n. An outpost of th

e W3C staffed and operated by a Member organization, under contract to W3C, which provides outreach in one or more designated countries.

onLoad

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

An application should traverse to the ending resource immediately on loading the starting resource. This is similar to the effect typically achieved by the following HTML fragment, when the user agent is configured to display images:<IMG SRC="http://www.example.org/smiley.gif" ALT=":-)">If a single resource contains multiple arcs whose behavior is set to show="replace" actuate="onLoad", application behavior is unconstrained by XLink.
onRequest

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

An application should traverse from the starting resource to the ending resource only on a post-loading event triggered for the purpose of traversal. An example of such an event might be when a user clicks on the presentation of the starting resource, or a software module finishes a countdown that precedes a redirect.
ontological

From RDF Semantics (2004-02-10) | Glossary for this source

(adj.) (Philosophy) Concerned with what kinds of things really exist. (Applied) Concerned with the details of a formal description of some topic or domain.
ontology

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

(1) collection of information, generally including information about classes and properties
(2) the information contained in an ontology document
ontology document

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

a Web document that contains an ontology, generally indicated by the presence of an owl:Ontology element in the document
open source

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

Software whose source code is freely distributed and modifiable by anyone. W3C sample code is open source software. A trademark of opensource.org, a relatively newcom
openMath

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

A general representation language for communicating mathematical objects between application programs.
operating environment

From User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (2002-12-17) | Glossary for this source

The term "operating environment" refers to the environment that governs the user agent's operation, whether it is an operating system or a programming language environment such as Java.
operation

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

A set of messages related to a single Web service action. [WSD Reqs]

operator, an mo element

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

Used to represent ordinary operators, fences, separators in MathML presentation. (The token element mo is defined in Section 3.2.5 [Operator, Fence, Separator or Accent (mo)]).
operator, content element

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

A mathematical object that is applied to arguments using the apply element.
option declaration

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

An option declaration declares an option that affects the behavior of a particular implementation. Each option consists of an identifying QName and a StringLiteral.

The Glossary System has been built by Pierre Candela during an internship in W3C; it's now maintained by Dominique Hazael-Massieux

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