Glossary Definitions

Glossary

Atrribute

A description of an element and its content; often used as metadata.

DTD

A definition of the grammar for a class of XML documents. It is used in validation of documents.

EDD

Element Definition Document. Adobe's proprietary file format that defines both the structure (grammar) and style of a class of documents.

Element

A container of content within an opening and closing pair of TAGs.

Hyperlink

A section of underlined text in BLUE that points to another section of this electronic document.

ICON

A thumbnail sized graphic representing a program or item.

PDF

Acronym for Portable Document Format. A file format created by Adobe Systems, Inc.

Schoolhouse Rock

Short educational animated clips that emphasized mathematics, grammar and U.S. history in a musical format. Originally shown in between Saturday morning cartoons on the ABC Television Network.

SGML

Standard Generalized Markup Language, which is a language for describing markup languages, particularly those used in electronic document exchange, document management, and document publishing