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Appendix B — Glossary

Contents of DID 0.2
Term Meaning
Definition A diagram a user created of a diagram type, stored as a .did file.
Document The content a user works on in a host; for a diagram, its stored form is a definition.
Finding The result of evaluating a rule or reading a model, with a severity and where it is: an element, a source location, or an undrawn subject. DID 0.1 and DISL 0.1 called it a problem.
Fragment Part of a definition, copied or exported (section 7).
Runtime Software in a host that loads a specification and lets users create and change definitions with it.
Specification A DISL file (.dis) in which a tool engineer specifies one diagram type.
Tool engineer The person who specifies a diagram type in DISL.
View data Per-diagram placement and presentation data stored separately from the model (section 5).

Every other term is defined in DISL, Appendix C.