Glossary
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- User Agent
A user agent is a piece of software that interprets Web documents for a user. Examples of user agents are browsers on PCs, cell phones or PDAs, and screen readers.
- Web Authors
Web authors code documents for the Web using a mark-up language. Web authors are often also known as Web designers or Web developers.
- Wicket
Aside from the cricket terminology for a wicket, a common definition is a small door or gate, especially one built into or near a larger one.
In web terminology wickets are the angled brackets '<>'that encase html elements (i.e. <h1>title</h1>).
- XHTML (eXtensible HyperText Markup Language)
XHTML is a reformulation of HTML so that it conforms to the rules of XML. This means that XHTML is very similar to HTML, except for slight differences in the markup, but it is now a sub-set of XML.
- XML (eXtensible Markup Language)
XML defines rules to mark-up a document in a way that allows the author to express semantic meaning in the mark-up. XML does not necessarily restrict the author to certain tags (elements) as HTML and XHTML does. So, an author could decide to mark-up a recipe with tags like
<ingredient>,<step>,<oventemperature>, and so on. However, sub-sets of XML have defined certain tags in certain ways. An example of this is XHTML.- XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language)
A family of recommendations which describes how XML documents should display and facilitates the transformation of XML documents into other formats.
