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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