From 10f7b57a63344c11cf07c4678e074ff1887e3f10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steve Sheppard <ssheps@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:22:24 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] update Glossary;
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1.6/appendices/glossary.xml | 316 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
1 file changed, 185 insertions(+), 131 deletions(-)
diff --git a/1.6/appendices/glossary.xml b/1.6/appendices/glossary.xml
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--- a/1.6/appendices/glossary.xml
+++ b/1.6/appendices/glossary.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
<glossary xml:id="Glossary" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" xmlns:xl="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<title>Glossary</title>
<abstract>
- <para>In this section we expand acronyms, define terms, and generally try to explain concepts used by Evergreen software.</para>
+ <para>In this section we expand acronyms, define terms, and generally try
+ to explain concepts used by Evergreen software.</para>
</abstract>
<glossdiv>
<title>A</title>
@@ -12,9 +13,9 @@
<primary>Apache</primary>
</indexterm>
<glossdef>
- <para>Open-source web server software used to serve both static content and dynamic web pages in a
- secure and reliable way. More information is available at
- <ulink url="http://apache.org">http://apache.org</ulink>.</para>
+ <para>Open-source web server software used to serve both static content and
+ dynamic web pages in a secure and reliable way. More information is available
+ at <ulink url="http://apache.org">http://apache.org</ulink>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
</glossdiv>
@@ -26,9 +27,10 @@
<primary>bookbags</primary>
</indexterm>
<glossdef>
- <para>Bookbags are lists of items that can be used for any number of purposes. For example, to
- keep track of what books you have read, books you would like to read, to maintain a class reading
- list, to maintain a reading list for a book club, to keep a list of books you would like for your
+ <para>Bookbags are lists of items that can be used for any number of
+ purposes. For example, to keep track of what books you have read, books you
+ would like to read, to maintain a class reading list, to maintain a reading
+ list for a book club, to keep a list of books you would like for your
birthday. There are an unlimited number of uses.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
@@ -42,18 +44,19 @@
<secondary>CentOS</secondary>
</indexterm>
<glossdef>
- <para>A popular open-source operating system based on Red Hat Enterprises <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> (a.k.a. "RHEL") and often used for in web
- servers. More information is available at
- <ulink url="http://www.centos.org">http://www.centos.org</ulink>.</para>
+ <para>A popular open-source operating system based on Red Hat Enterprises
+ <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> (a.k.a. "RHEL") and often used
+ for in web servers. More information is available at <ulink url="http://www.centos.org">http://www.centos.org</ulink>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="closure">
<glossterm>Closure Compiler</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A suite of open-source tools used to build web applications with
- <application>Javascript</application>; originally developed by Google. More information
- is available at
- <ulink url="http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/">http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/</ulink>.</para>
+ <application>Javascript</application>; originally developed by Google.
+ More information is available at
+ <ulink url="http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/">
+ http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/</ulink>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="CPAN">
@@ -78,10 +81,11 @@
<secondary>Debian</secondary>
</indexterm>
<glossdef>
- <para>One of the most popular open-source operating system using the <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> kernel that provides over 25000 useful precompiled
- software packages. Also known as <systemitem class="osname">Debian
- GNU/Linux</systemitem>. More information is available at
- <ulink url="http://www.debian.org">http://www.debian.org</ulink>.</para>
+ <para>One of the most popular open-source operating system using the
+ <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> kernel that provides over 25000
+ useful precompiled software packages. Also known as
+ <systemitem class="osname">Debian GNU/Linux</systemitem>. More information is
+ available at <ulink url="http://www.debian.org">http://www.debian.org</ulink>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry>
@@ -89,11 +93,14 @@
<indexterm>
<primary>domain name</primary>
</indexterm>
- <glossdef><para>A unique set of case-insensitive, alphanumeric strings separated by periods that
- are used to name organizations, web sites and addresses on the Internet (e.g.:
- <uri>www.esilibrary.com</uri>). Domain names can be reserved via third-party
- registration services, and can be associated with a unique IP address or suite of IP
- addresses.</para> <glossseealso otherterm="ipaddress"/></glossdef>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>A unique set of case-insensitive, alphanumeric strings separated by
+ periods that are used to name organizations, web sites and addresses on the
+ Internet (e.g.: <uri>www.esilibrary.com</uri>). Domain names can be reserved
+ via third-party registration services, and can be associated with a unique IP
+ address or suite of IP addresses.</para>
+ <glossseealso otherterm="ipaddress"/>
+ </glossdef>
</glossentry>
</glossdiv>
<glossdiv>
@@ -103,13 +110,18 @@
<indexterm>
<primary>ejabberd</primary>
</indexterm>
- <glossdef><para>An open-source Jabber/XMPP instant messaging server that runs under popular
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>An open-source Jabber/XMPP instant messaging server that runs under popular
operating systems (e.g., <systemitem class="osname">Mac OSX</systemitem>,
- <systemitem class="osname">GNU/Linux</systemitem>, and <systemitem class="osname">Microsoft Windows</systemitem>). One popular use is to provide
- <application>XMPP</application> messaging services for a
- <application>Jabber</application> domain across an extendable cluster of cheap,
- easily-replaced machine nodes. More information is available at
- <ulink url="http://www.ejabberd.im/">http://www.ejabberd.im</ulink>.</para><glossseealso otherterm="Jabber"/> <glossseealso otherterm="XMPP"/></glossdef>
+ <systemitem class="osname">GNU/Linux</systemitem>, and
+ <systemitem class="osname">Microsoft Windows</systemitem>). One popular use is
+ to provide <application>XMPP</application> messaging services for a
+ <application>Jabber</application> domain across an extendable cluster of
+ cheap, easily-replaced machine nodes. More information is available at
+ <ulink url="http://www.ejabberd.im/">http://www.ejabberd.im</ulink>.</para>
+ <glossseealso otherterm="Jabber"/>
+ <glossseealso otherterm="XMPP"/>
+ </glossdef>
</glossentry>
</glossdiv>
<glossdiv>
@@ -126,8 +138,8 @@
</indexterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A popular open-source operating system built on the
- <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> kernel. More information is available at
- <ulink url="http://www.gentoo.org">http://www.gentoo.org</ulink>.</para>
+ <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> kernel. More information is available
+ at <ulink url="http://www.gentoo.org">http://www.gentoo.org</ulink>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
</glossdiv>
@@ -143,12 +155,13 @@
<primary>IP Address</primary>
</indexterm>
<glossdef>
- <para>(Internet Protocol address) A numerical label consisting of four numbers separated
- by periods (e.g., "192.168.1.15") assigned to individual members of networked computing
- systems. It uniquely identifies each system on the network and allows controlled
- communication between such systems. The numerical label scheme must adhere to a strictly
- defined naming convention that is currently defined and overseen by the Internet
- Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN").</para>
+ <para>(Internet Protocol address) A numerical label consisting of four numbers
+ separated by periods (e.g., "192.168.1.15") assigned to individual members of
+ networked computing systems. It uniquely identifies each system on the network
+ and allows controlled communication between such systems. The numerical label
+ scheme must adhere to a strictly defined naming convention that is currently
+ defined and overseen by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
+ Numbers ("ICANN").</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="Item Buckets">
@@ -162,9 +175,9 @@
<seealso>copy buckets</seealso>
</indexterm>
<glossdef>
- <para>Virtual <quote>containers</quote> to use in batch processing of item or copy
- records. They can be used to perform various cataloging/holdings maintenance tasks in
- batch.</para>
+ <para>Virtual <quote>containers</quote> to use in batch processing of item or
+ copy records. They can be used to perform various cataloging/holdings
+ maintenance tasks in batch.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
</glossdiv>
@@ -176,8 +189,11 @@
<primary>jabber</primary>
<seealso>XMPP</seealso>
</indexterm>
- <glossdef><para>Now known as XMPP (eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol), it was originally
- named "Jabber".</para> <glossseealso otherterm="XMPP"/></glossdef>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>Now known as XMPP (eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol), it was
+ originally named "Jabber".</para>
+ <glossseealso otherterm="XMPP"/>
+ </glossdef>
</glossentry>
</glossdiv>
<glossdiv>
@@ -196,8 +212,8 @@
<primary>MARC</primary>
</indexterm>
<glossdef>
- <para>The MARC formats are standards for the representation and communication of
- bibliographic and related information in machine-readable form.</para>
+ <para>The MARC formats are standards for the representation and communication
+ of bibliographic and related information in machine-readable form.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="MARCXML">
@@ -212,9 +228,10 @@
<glossentry id="McCoy">
<glossterm>McCoy</glossterm>
<glossdef>
- <para>An open-source application that allows add-on authors to provide secure updates to
- their users. More information is available at
- <ulink url="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/McCoy">http://developer.mozilla.org/en/McCoy</ulink>.</para>
+ <para>An open-source application that allows add-on authors to provide secure
+ updates to their users. More information is available at
+ <ulink url="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/McCoy">
+ http://developer.mozilla.org/en/McCoy</ulink>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="memcached">
@@ -223,10 +240,11 @@
<primary>memcached</primary>
</indexterm>
<glossdef>
- <para>A general-purpose distributed memory caching system, usually with a client~server
- architecture spread over multiple computing systems. It reduces the number of times a
- data source (e.g., a database) must be directly accessed by temporarily caching data in
- memory, therefore dramatically speeding up database-driven web applications.</para>
+ <para>A general-purpose distributed memory caching system, usually with a
+ client~server architecture spread over multiple computing systems. It reduces
+ the number of times a data source (e.g., a database) must be directly accessed
+ by temporarily caching data in memory, therefore dramatically speeding up
+ database-driven web applications.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
</glossdiv>
@@ -260,9 +278,9 @@
<primary>OPAC</primary>
</indexterm>
<glossdef>
- <para>The "Online Public Access Catalog"; an online database of a library's holdings;
- used to find resources in their collections; possibly searchable by keyword, title,
- author, subject or call number.</para>
+ <para>The "Online Public Access Catalog"; an online database of a library's
+ holdings; used to find resources in their collections; possibly searchable by
+ keyword, title, author, subject or call number.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="OpenSRF">
@@ -271,9 +289,10 @@
<primary>OpenSRF</primary>
</indexterm>
<glossdef>
- <para>The "Open Scalable Request Framework" (pronounced 'open surf') is a stateful,
- decentralized service architecture that allows developers to create applications for
- Evergreen with a minimum of knowledge of its structure.</para>
+ <para>The "Open Scalable Request Framework" (pronounced 'open surf') is a
+ stateful, decentralized service architecture that allows developers to create
+ applications for Evergreen with a minimum of knowledge of its
+ structure.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
</glossdiv>
@@ -285,8 +304,8 @@
<primary>PKI</primary>
</indexterm>
<glossdef>
- <para>Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) describes the schemes needed to generate and maintain
- digital SSL Certificates.</para>
+ <para>Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) describes the schemes needed to generate
+ and maintain digital SSL Certificates.</para>
<glossseealso otherterm="SSL Certificate"/>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
@@ -297,8 +316,8 @@
<secondary>PostgreSQL</secondary>
</indexterm>
<glossdef>
- <para>A popular open-source object-relational database management system that underpins
- Evergreen software.</para>
+ <para>A popular open-source object-relational database management system that
+ underpins Evergreen software.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="putty">
@@ -308,9 +327,10 @@
<secondary>Putty</secondary>
</indexterm>
<glossdef>
- <para>A popular open-source telnet/ssh client for the Windows and Unix platforms.
- More information is available at
- <ulink url="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/">http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/</ulink>.</para>
+ <para>A popular open-source telnet/ssh client for the Windows and Unix
+ platforms. More information is available at
+ <ulink url="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/">
+ http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/</ulink>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
</glossdiv>
@@ -323,8 +343,10 @@
<glossentry id="Resource Hacker">
<glossterm>Resource Hacker</glossterm>
<glossdef>
- <para>An open-source utility used to view, modify, rename, add, delete and extract
- resources in 32bit Windows executables</para>
+ <para>An open-source utility used to view, modify, rename, add, delete and
+ extract resources in 32bit Windows executables.
+ More information is available at
+ <ulink url="http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/">Resource Hacker</ulink></para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="RHEL">
@@ -336,10 +358,11 @@
<glossdef>
<para>Also known as "Red Hat Enterprises
<systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem>". An official
- <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> distribution that is targeted at
- the commercial market. It is the basis of other popular <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem>
- distributions, e.g., <systemitem class="osname">CentOS</systemitem>. More information is
- available at <ulink url="http://www.redhat.com">http://www.redhat.com</ulink>.</para>
+ <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> distribution that is targeted
+ at the commercial market. It is the basis of other popular
+ <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> distributions, e.g.,
+ <systemitem class="osname">CentOS</systemitem>. More information is available
+ at <ulink url="http://www.redhat.com">http://www.redhat.com</ulink>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
</glossdiv>
@@ -372,9 +395,9 @@
<primary>SRU</primary>
</indexterm>
<glossdef>
- <para>SRU is a standard XML-focused search protocol for Internet search queries,
- utilizing CQL (Contextual Query Language), a standard syntax for representing
- queries.</para>
+ <para>SRU is a standard XML-focused search protocol for Internet search
+ queries, utilizing CQL (Contextual Query Language), a standard syntax for
+ representing queries.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="ssh">
@@ -383,10 +406,10 @@
<primary>SSH</primary>
</indexterm>
<glossdef>
- <para>An encrypted network protocol using public-key cryptography that allows secure
- communications between systems on an insecure network. Typically used to access shell
- accounts but also supports tunneling, forwarding TCP ports and X11 connections, and
- transferring files.</para>
+ <para>An encrypted network protocol using public-key cryptography that allows
+ secure communications between systems on an insecure network. Typically used
+ to access shell accounts but also supports tunneling, forwarding TCP ports and
+ X11 connections, and transferring files.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="sshproxy">
@@ -395,10 +418,16 @@
<primary>SSH</primary>
<secondary>proxy</secondary>
</indexterm>
- <glossdef><para>As used in Evergreen, a method of allowing one or more Staff Clients to
- communicate with one or more Evergreen servers over an insecure network by sending data
- through a secure SSH tunnel. It also buffers and caches all data travelling to and from
- Staff Clients to speed up access to resources on Evergreen servers.</para><glossseealso otherterm="ssh"/> <glossseealso otherterm="tunneling"/><glossseealso otherterm="sshtunnel"/></glossdef>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>As used in Evergreen, a method of allowing one or more Staff Clients to
+ communicate with one or more Evergreen servers over an insecure network by
+ sending data through a secure SSH tunnel. It also buffers and caches all data
+ travelling to and from Staff Clients to speed up access to resources on
+ Evergreen servers.</para>
+ <glossseealso otherterm="ssh"/>
+ <glossseealso otherterm="tunneling"/>
+ <glossseealso otherterm="sshtunnel"/>
+ </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="sshtunnel">
<glossterm>SSH tunnel</glossterm>
@@ -406,8 +435,12 @@
<primary>SSH</primary>
<secondary>tunneling</secondary>
</indexterm>
- <glossdef><para>An encrypted data channel existing over an SSH network connection. Used to
- securely transfer unencrypted data streams over insecure networks.</para><glossseealso otherterm="ssh"/> <glossseealso otherterm="tunneling"/></glossdef>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>An encrypted data channel existing over an SSH network connection. Used
+ to securely transfer unencrypted data streams over insecure networks.</para>
+ <glossseealso otherterm="ssh"/>
+ <glossseealso otherterm="tunneling"/>
+ </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="SSL Certificate">
<glossterm>SSL Certificate</glossterm>
@@ -415,13 +448,14 @@
<primary>SSL</primary>
</indexterm>
<glossdef>
- <para>As used in Evergreen, it is a method of ensuring that Staff Clients are able to
- connect to legitimate Evergreen servers.</para>
- <para>In general, it is a special electronic document used to guarantee authenticity of
- a digital message. Also known as a "public key", or "identity" or "digital"
- certificate. It combines an identity (of a person or an organization) and a unique
- public key to form a so-called digital signature, and is used to verify that the public
- key does, in fact, belong with that particular identity.</para>
+ <para>As used in Evergreen, it is a method of ensuring that Staff Clients are
+ able to connect to legitimate Evergreen servers.</para>
+ <para>In general, it is a special electronic document used to guarantee
+ authenticity of a digital message. Also known as a "public key", or "identity"
+ or "digital" certificate. It combines an identity (of a person or an
+ organization) and a unique public key to form a so-called digital signature,
+ and is used to verify that the public key does, in fact, belong with that
+ particular identity.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
</glossdiv>
@@ -433,13 +467,17 @@
<primary>tunneling</primary>
<seealso>SSH tunneling</seealso>
</indexterm>
- <glossdef><para>As used in Evergreen, it is a method of allowing Staff Clients to securely
- connect to legitimate Evergreen servers.</para><para>In general, it is a method of encapsulating data provided in one network protocol
- (the "delivery"protocol), within data in a different network protocol (the "tunneling"
- protocol). Used to provide a secure path and secure communications through an insecure
- or incompatible network. Can be used to bypass firewalls by communicating via a protocol
- the firewall normally blocks, but "wrapped" inside a protocol that the firewall does not
- block.</para> <glossseealso otherterm="sshtunnel"/></glossdef>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>As used in Evergreen, it is a method of allowing Staff Clients to securely
+ connect to legitimate Evergreen servers.</para>
+ <para>In general, it is a method of encapsulating data provided in one network
+ protocol (the "delivery"protocol), within data in a different network protocol
+ (the "tunneling" protocol). Used to provide a secure path and secure
+ communications through an insecure or incompatible network. Can be used to
+ bypass firewalls by communicating via a protocol the firewall normally blocks,
+ but "wrapped" inside a protocol that the firewall does not block.</para>
+ <glossseealso otherterm="sshtunnel"/>
+ </glossdef>
</glossentry>
</glossdiv>
<glossdiv>
@@ -500,11 +538,14 @@
<primary>virtualization software</primary>
<secondary>Virtual PC</secondary>
</indexterm>
- <glossdef><para>A popular commercial package of virtualization software that emulates the x86
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>A popular commercial package of virtualization software that emulates the x86
microprocessor architecture. It is installed on a Windows "host" operating system and
allows other "guest" (typically including <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem>
and <systemitem class="osname">Windows</systemitem>) operating systems to be loaded and
- executed.</para> <glossseealso otherterm="virtualization"/></glossdef>
+ executed.</para>
+ <glossseealso otherterm="virtualization"/>
+ </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="Volume Buckets">
<glossterm>Volume Buckets</glossterm>
@@ -513,8 +554,8 @@
</indexterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Virtual <quote>containers</quote> to use in batch processing of multiple
- volumes. They can be used to perform various cataloging/holdings maintenance tasks in
- batch.</para>
+ volumes. They can be used to perform various cataloging/holdings maintenance
+ tasks in batch.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="vmware">
@@ -526,12 +567,14 @@
<glossdef>
<para>A popular commercial package of virtualization software that emulates the x86
microprocessor architecture. It can be installed on
- <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem>, <systemitem class="osname">Mac OS X</systemitem>,
+ <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem>,
+ <systemitem class="osname">Mac OS X</systemitem>,
<systemitem class="osname">Windows</systemitem> or
- <systemitem class="osname">Solaris</systemitem> "host" operating systems and
- allows other "guest" (typically including <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem>
- and <systemitem class="osname">Windows</systemitem>) operating systems to be loaded
- and executed.</para>
+ <systemitem class="osname">Solaris</systemitem> "host" operating systems and
+ allows other "guest" (typically including
+ <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> and
+ <systemitem class="osname">Windows</systemitem>) operating systems to be
+ loaded and executed.</para>
<glossseealso otherterm="virtualization"/>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
@@ -546,7 +589,8 @@
</indexterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A popular open-source application that allows
- <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> and <systemitem class="osname">Unix</systemitem>
+ <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> and
+ <systemitem class="osname">Unix</systemitem>
systems to run <systemitem class="osname">Windows</systemitem> executables.
More information is available at
<ulink url="http://www.winehq.org/">http://www.winehq.org/</ulink>.</para>
@@ -561,10 +605,11 @@
<primary>XML</primary>
</indexterm>
<glossdef>
- <para>The eXtensible Markup Language, a subset of SGML; a set of rules for encoding
- information in a way that is both human- and machine-readable. It is primarily used to
- define documents but can also be used to define arbitrary data structures. It was
- originally defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).</para>
+ <para>The eXtensible Markup Language, a subset of SGML; a set of rules for
+ encoding information in a way that is both human- and machine-readable. It is
+ primarily used to define documents but can also be used to define arbitrary
+ data structures. It was originally defined by the World Wide Web Consortium
+ (W3C).</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="XMPP">
@@ -573,11 +618,15 @@
<primary>XMPP</primary>
<seealso>jabber</seealso>
</indexterm>
- <glossdef><para>An open-standard communications protocol, based on XML, used in message-oriented
- middleware. It supports the concept of a consistent <emphasis>domain</emphasis> of
- message types that flow between software applications, possibly on different operating
- systems and architectures. More information is available at
- <ulink url="http://xmpp.org">http://xmpp.org</ulink>.</para> <glossseealso otherterm="Jabber"/></glossdef>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>An open-standard communications protocol, based on XML, used in
+ message-oriented middleware. It supports the concept of a consistent
+ <emphasis>domain</emphasis> of message types that flow between software
+ applications, possibly on different operating systems and architectures.
+ More information is available at
+ <ulink url="http://xmpp.org">http://xmpp.org</ulink>.</para>
+ <glossseealso otherterm="Jabber"/>
+ </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="xpath">
<glossterm>xpath</glossterm>
@@ -585,12 +634,12 @@
<primary>xpath</primary>
</indexterm>
<glossdef>
- <para>The XML Path Language, a query language based on a tree representation of an XML
- document. It is used to programmatically select nodes from an XML document and to do
- minor computation involving strings, numbers and Boolean values. It allows you to
- identify parts of the XML document tree, to navigate around the tree, and to uniquely
- select nodes. The currently version is "XPath 2.0". It was originally defined by the
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).</para>
+ <para>The XML Path Language, a query language based on a tree representation
+ of an XML document. It is used to programmatically select nodes from an XML
+ document and to do minor computation involving strings, numbers and Boolean
+ values. It allows you to identify parts of the XML document tree, to navigate
+ around the tree, and to uniquely select nodes. The currently version is "XPath
+ 2.0". It was originally defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="xul">
@@ -603,7 +652,8 @@
building cross-platform applications that drive <application>Mozilla</application>
-based browsers such as <application>Firefox</application>. More information is
available at
- <ulink url="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL">https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL</ulink>.</para>
+ <ulink url="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL">
+ https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL</ulink>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="xulrunner">
@@ -613,10 +663,12 @@
</indexterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A specialized run-time application environment that provides support for
- installing, upgrading and uninstalling <application>XUL</application> applications. It
- operates with <application>Mozilla</application>-based applications such as the
- <application>Firefox</application> browser. More information is available at
- <ulink url="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XULRunner">https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XULRunner</ulink>.</para>
+ installing, upgrading and uninstalling <application>XUL</application>
+ applications. It operates with <application>Mozilla</application>-based
+ applications such as the <application>Firefox</application> browser.
+ More information is available at
+ <ulink url="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XULRunner">
+ https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XULRunner</ulink>.</para>
<glossseealso otherterm="xul"/>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
@@ -629,8 +681,8 @@
<primary>yaz</primary>
</indexterm>
<glossdef>
- <para>A programmersâ toolkit supporting the development of Z39.50/SRW/SRU clients and
- servers.</para>
+ <para>A programmersâ toolkit supporting the development of Z39.50/SRW/SRU
+ clients and servers.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="yaz-client">
@@ -639,7 +691,9 @@
</indexterm>
<glossterm>yaz-client</glossterm>
<glossdef>
- <para>Z39.50/SRU client for connecting to YAZ servers.</para>
+ <para>Z39.50/SRU client for connecting to YAZ servers.
+ More information is available at
+ <ulink url="http://www.indexdata.com/yaz">http://www.indexdata.com/yaz</ulink></para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
</glossdiv>
@@ -651,8 +705,8 @@
<primary>Z39.50</primary>
</indexterm>
<glossdef>
- <para>A clientâserver protocol for searching and retrieving information from remote
- computer databases.</para>
+ <para>A clientâserver protocol for searching and retrieving information from
+ remote computer databases.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
</glossdiv>
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