Glossary
A
ambient locale
The locale specified for the operating system or
environment in which an application operates. In
the rare circumstance where the application is
operating on a system or within an environment
where a locale is not present, the ambient locale
defaults to English United States (en-US), which is
the default locale.
application processor
See
“XFA application processor”
annotation
Additional content added to a PDF document.
Such content includes comments.
connection set
The connections used to initiate or conduct web
services. Such a set defines connections for web
services (WSDL), sample data (XML), and schema
files (XSD).
container element
A type of XFA template element that specifies
either of the following: (a) content elements and
the form-related aspects of navigating to,
displaying and processing those elements; or (b)
other container elements and the form-related
aspects of navigating to, displaying and processing
those container elements.
Container elements include
pageArea
,
area
,
subform
,
field
, and
exclGroup
.
container object or node
B
boilerplate
See
fixed content (boilerplate).
An object that can be populated with content
objects or with other subordinate container
objects. Container objects are created during data
binding and layout processing.
Container objects include
area
,
subform
,
field
,
and
exclGroup
.
content element
A type of XFA template element that houses
datatyped text or graphic elements (lines and
images). Such text or graphic elements may be
defined as default data or un-changeable data in
the content element.
content object or node
An object that houses datatyped pcdata (text) or
graphic elements (lines and images). New content
objects are created during data binding and layout
processing.
The data may be pre-defined in the content
element or may be provided by the form user or by
some other source, such as Web Service
interactions.
C
canonical format
A locale-agnostic, standardized way to represent
date, time, numbers, and currencies. Canonical
time and date formats are subsets of the ISO-8601
standard [ISO-8601].
canonicalization
The part of input parsing that considers locale
when converting locale-specific dates, times,
numbers, and currencies into canonical format.
See also
localization.
character data
All text within an XML document that is not
markup constitutes character data. See the
description of character data within section “2.4
Character Data and Markup” of the XML
specification [XML].
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