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Glossary

Server: A server is a computer within a network which provides special services, e.g. FTP or HTTP, for other networked components.
SGML: The Standard Generalized Markup Language is a language for text-formatting which has been standardized in 1986 by ISO. This language (ISO 8879) is also the base for the definition of HTML.
Spider: Also called robot or crawler. A program which scans and analyzes HTML documents for further processing (e.g. for a search engine). During the scanning process, the program may also automatically follow hypertext references in the documents, so that the complete document tree of a web-site can be caught.
SSI: Server Side Include. A method for dynamically generating WWW documents or parts of them.
SQL: The Structured Query Language is used to process information of relational databases. It also allows to distribute the computational processes required for the database queries if used within a network.