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- noun especially in combination The condition of having a (specified)
form
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Examples
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In conversation, oral promptings (˜Quote-unquote™) or finger-dance quotes can often be omitted without impairing the intelligibility or well-formedness of the utterance.
Quotation Cappelen, Herman 2009
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The ill-formedness of (25) is striking, since one can sensibly ask whether or not the boy who was happy sang.
Logical Form Pietroski, Paul 2009
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Just a quick recap: well-formedness means that the XML document has a proper syntax: one root node, properly closed tags, quotes around attribute values, etc.
Archive 2008-12-01 Egon Willighagen 2008
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Chris, there is a regular expression check for well-formedness that you should run before you pass the JSON into eval ().
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Just a quick recap: well-formedness means that the XML document has a proper syntax: one root node, properly closed tags, quotes around attribute values, etc.
Editing and Validation of CML documents in Bioclipse Egon Willighagen 2008
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Layout issues expose some of the most meaningful CSS concerns: well-formedness, cascading, use of container divs, semantic issues in id/class names.
On teaching CSS - emergency weblog; or: epersonae; or: elaine nelson 2005
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If weblogging tools enforced at least the well-formedness of the RSS output, a great part of the problem with invalid feeds would be solved.
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The combinatorial syntax not only gives us a criterion of well-formedness for mental expressions, but it also defines the logical form or syntactic structure for each well-formed expression.
The Language of Thought Hypothesis Aydede, Murat 2004
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Code completion, XML file indenting and well-formedness checking are some of the features built into it.
SD Times Latest News 2010
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"UTF-8 encoded XML document with invalid character did not have a well-formedness error"
KDE TechBase - Recent changes [en] Nicolas17 2010
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