Web Programming Vocabulary

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One of the core protocols of the Internet protocol suite. Guarantees reliable and in-order delivery of data from sender to receiver.

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TCP (Transmission Control Protocol)

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Standards organization for the World Wide Web.

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W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)

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Used to identify name or resource on the WWW.

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URL (Uniform Resource Locator)

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From submission method where the form data is encoded in the URL.

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GET Method

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Form submission method where the form data appears within the message body.

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POST Method

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Returned by the web server to the client software to determine the outcome of a request.

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HTTP Status Codes

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Each page request is discrete - i.e. processed without any knowledge of previous pages requested

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Stateless

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Parcels of text sent by a server to a web browser and then sent back unchanged by the browser each time it accesses that server. Used to keep state on WWW.

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Cookies

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HTTP interaction over an encrypted Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS) transport mechanism.

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https

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HTTP success status codes

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2xx status code

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HTTP client error status codes

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4xx status code

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HTTP server error status codes

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5xx status code

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Web server function that points old URL to new one

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redirect

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Document that obeys syntax of XML.

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Well-formed

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XML document that is well formed and conforms to all the constraints imposed by a DTD.

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Valid

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The main building blocks of both XML and HTML documents.

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Elements

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Provide extra information about elements in XML documents.

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Attributes

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Variables used to define common text in XML documents.

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Entities

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The attribute value must be included in the element

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#REQUIRED

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The attribute does not have to be included

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#IMPLIED

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The attribute value is fixed

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#FIXED value

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Declaring Minimum One Occurrence of an Element.

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+ quantifier

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Declaring Zero or More Occurrences of an Element.

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* quantifier

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Declaring Zero or One Occurrences of an Element.

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? quantifier

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Provide a simple method for qualifying element and attribute names used in XML documents

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Namespaces

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Name subject to namespace interpretation

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Qualified name

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This element defines a simple type and specifies the constraints and information about the values of attributes or text-only elements.

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simpleType Element

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XML element that contains other elements and/or attributes.

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complexType Element

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Language for finding information in an XML document

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XPATH

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stylesheet language for XML

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XSL

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This element specifies that the child elements must appear in a sequence.

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sequence

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XSL style sheet consists of one or more set of rules that are called...

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templates

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Language that figures out what type of data you have and makes the necessary adjustments so that you don't have to redefine your different types of data.

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weakly typed language

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Code in HTML document.

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script

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HTML tag that defines a script

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script tag

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Visibility of variables.

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Variable Scope

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Special block of statements called when an object is declared.

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constructor

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Set of symbols used to search for occurrences of text or to search and replace text.

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regular expression

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Parts of DOM tree.

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Nodes

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Defines the communication boundary between two entities, such as a piece of software.

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interface

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A platform- and language-neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content and structure of documents

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W3C Core DOM

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A platform- and language-neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content and structure of HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 documents

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W3C HTML DOM

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DOM interface provides the abstraction of an ordered collection of nodes, without defining or constraining how this collection is implemented

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NodeList

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String of text in DOM

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Text node

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Node object in an XML document that can contain other elements and can have attributes.

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Element Node