Appendix C. Glossary

“What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.”

—William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)

A format for text display that consists of a set of 128 characters.

associative array

An array whose keys are strings rather than integers (sometimes referred to as a “hash” or “hash table”).

BASE64

An encoding scheme for representing any type of data as ASCII text, so that it may be easily transmitted across the Internet.

callback function

A function registered with the SAX parser as the handler for a specific type of event.

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