Shipping Glossary
COMMON SHIPPING TERMS
X-ray | |
High frequency electromagnetic ray of short wave-length, capable of penetrating most solid substances. | |
X.25 | |
International standard of the CCITT for packet switching. | |
X.400 | |
A CCITT recommendation designed to facilitate international message and information exchange between subscribers of computer based store-and-forward services and office information systems in association with public and private data networks. | |
X.500 | |
The CCITT now ITU recommendations (ISO9594) for the structure of directories for the maintenance of addresses used in electronic mail. | |
XML | |
Extensible mark-up language is an official recommendation by the World Wide Web Consortium as a successor of HTML (Hyper Text Mark-up language) it can be used to convey documents layout and contents from one computer application to another. XML is a subset of SGML. | |
XML / EDI | |
The exchange of structured information over the Internet using XML as the syntax. | |