The syntax of hierarchy (table)

Ken Webb 2010-03-14T22:24:01Z

The concept of hierarchical structure is used across many different domains. This table lists some of the English terms and XML tag names used to identify this concept.

Main terms Domain Additional terms
Actor ObjecTime
Block SysML
Agent SDL Block, System, Process
Capsule Rational Rose Realtime
Class Java class inheritance Superclass, Subclass
Component GoF Composite pattern
Component Java AWT/Swing Container
<div> HTML
ELEMENT DTD
element XSD
<g> SVG
Holon everything
Morph Morphic
Node XML/HTML DOM Element
<node> FreeMind <cloud>, <arrowlink>
StructuredClassifier UML 2 Composite Structure EncapsulatedClassifier
tnode Kernighan & Ritchie, C
Widget Java Eclipse SWT Composite, Control
Widget Java GWT
Window Smalltalk/V (1991) OrderedCollection
Xholon Xholon
binary tree parent, leftChild, rightChild, sibling
jQuery (JavaScript) parentNode, children, next
XPath parent, child, next-sibling

temporary

MathML
microformat div
EMF
XUL
ZK

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