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19. Glossary

`catalog'
An ordered collection of records. The order may be alphabetical in which case we speak of alphabetically ordered catalog. The catalog may be a tree of categories, each category being linked to one or more records.

`catalogued table'
The table for which a catalog order records.

`category'
A node of a thematicaly ordered catalog. It is part of the category tree.

`cgi'
Name of the Perl package derived from CGI.pm and providing a few additional functionalities like recursive CGI calls.

`cgi.conf'
Path name of the configuration file of the cgi package.

`instruction'
Generic name for a configuration file line containing a keyword and an value.

`link an entry'
Linking an entry means to associate a record from the catalogued table with a category of a given catalog. This implies to create a new record in the catalog_entry2category_NAME table.

`mysql'
Name of the Perl package that implements the library on top of the MySQL DBI package, providing relational constraints, dictionaries based on external tables etc.

`mysql.conf'
Path name of the configuration file of the mysql package.

`sqledit'
Name of the Perl package that implements the HTML interface to MySQL database.

`sqledit.conf'
Path name of the configuration file of the sqledit package.

`tag'
Usually used to designate the strings of the form _TAG_ found in templates and replaced by actual values by a cgi-bin.

`template'
A file containing tags and used by cgi-bin to display the output.

`unlink an entry'
Break the link between a record of a catalogued table and a category of a given catalog. This implies to remove a record from the catalog_entry2category_NAME table.

`XML'
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a data format for structured document interchange on the Web.

`XML attribute'
An XML attribute a key/value pair found in the opening tag of an element. For instance <tag attr=val> contains the attr=val attribute.

`XML element'
An XML element is a <tag> bla bla </tag> pair. Elements may be nested.


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