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In electronic record-keeping, a combination of characters or bytes referring to one separate item of information, such as name, address, or age. In the areas of databases and data systems more generally a data element is a concept forming part of a data model. As an element of data representation, a collection of data elements forms a data ...
In contrast with name-value pair attributes, there are some attributes that affect the element simply by their presence in the start tag of the element, [7] like the ismap attribute for the img element. [78] There are several common attributes that may appear in many elements : The id attribute provides a document-wide unique identifier for an ...
As an origin, setting the attribute href, [26] creates a hyperlink; it can point to either another part of the document or another resource (e.g. a webpage) using an external URL. As a target, setting the name or id HTML attributes, allows the element to be linked from a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) via a fragment identifier. The two forms ...
In database design, a composite key is a candidate key that consists of two or more attributes, [1] [2] [3] (table columns) that together uniquely identify an entity occurrence (table row). A compound key is a composite key for which each attribute that makes up the key is a foreign key in its own right.
names or codes allocated using a regime involving multiple (concurrent) issuers of unique identifiers that are each assigned mutually exclusive partitions of a global address space such that the unique identifiers assigned by each issuer in each exclusive address space partition are guaranteed to be globally unique.
In programming languages, name binding is the association of entities (data and/or code) with identifiers. [1] An identifier bound to an object is said to reference that object. Machine languages have no built-in notion of identifiers, but name-object bindings as a service and notation for the programmer is implemented by programming languages.
XML namespaces are used for providing uniquely named elements and attributes in an XML document. They are defined in a W3C recommendation. [1] [2] An XML instance may contain element or attribute names from more than one XML vocabulary. If each vocabulary is given a namespace, the ambiguity between identically named elements or attributes can ...
An attribute in a relational database can be represented as a column or field. In computing, an attribute is a specification that defines a property of an object, element, or file. It may also refer to or set the specific value for a given instance of such. For clarity, attributes should more correctly be considered metadata. An attribute is ...