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safe

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

Property of an interaction which does not have any significance of taking an action other than retrieval of information. [RFC 2616]

safe interaction

From Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One (2004-12-15) | Glossary for this source

Interaction with a resource where an agent does not incur any obligation beyond the interaction.
safe zone

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

Part of a Web site where the service provider performs only minimal data collection, and any data that is collected is used only in ways that would not reasonably identify an individual.
sample

From Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Second Edition) (2003-11-10) | Glossary for this source

intersection of a channel and a pixel in an image.
number of bits used to represent a sample value. In an indexed-colourPNG image, samples are stored in the palette and thus the sample depth is always 8 by definition of the palette. In other types of PNG image it is the same as the bit depth.
mapping of a range of sample values onto the full range of a sample depth allowed in a PNG image.
sample depth

From Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Second Edition) (2003-11-10) | Glossary for this source

number of bits used to represent a sample value. In an indexed-colourPNG image, samples are stored in the palette and thus the sample depth is always 8 by definition of the palette. In other types of PNG image it is the same as the bit depth.
mapping of a range of sample values onto the full range of a sample depth allowed in a PNG image.
sample depth scaling

From Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Second Edition) (2003-11-10) | Glossary for this source

mapping of a range of sample values onto the full range of a sample depth allowed in a PNG image .
satisfy

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

(v.t.), ,(n.) (adj., of an interpretation). To make true. The basic semantic relationship between an interpretation and an expression. X satisfies Y means that if the world conforms to the conditions described by X, then Y must be true.
scanline

From Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Second Edition) (2003-11-10) | Glossary for this source

row of pixels within an image or interlaced PNG image .
schema

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

Schema (plural: schemata or schemas). See `presentation layout schema'.
schema (pl., schemata)

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

A document that describes an XML or RDF vocabulary. Any document which describes, in formal way, a language or parameters of a langauge.
schema components

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

Type definitions and element and attribute declarations are referred to collectively as schema components.
schema constraint

From XForms 1.0 (2003-10-14) | Glossary for this source

A restriction, applied to form data, based on XML Schema datatypes.

schema import

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

A schema import imports the element declarations, attribute declarations, and type definitions from a schema into the in-scope schema definitions.
schema import feature

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

The Schema Import Feature permits the query Prolog to contain a schema import.
schema instance namespace

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

The schema instance namespacehttp://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance is used as defined in
schema namespace

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

The schema namespacehttp://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema is used as defined in
schema representation constraint

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

Constraints on the representation of schema components in XML. Some but not all of these are expressed in and .
schema type

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

A schema type is a type that is (or could be) defined using the facilities of (including the built-in types of ).
schema type

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

A schema type is a type that is (or could be) defined using the facilities of (including the built-in types of ).
schema validation feature

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

The Schema Validation Feature permits a query to contain a validate expression (see .)
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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