(1) The statements of the user interface manager (UIM) tag language. Tags describe the actions, format, and data of the panel. Tags are used to define the formatting of help information.
(2) One or more characters attached to a set of data (for example, a field or document element) that contain information about the set, including its identification.
(3) A text string attached to any instance of a word in a grammar. A tag can be used to distinguish two occurrences of the same word in a grammar, or to identify more than one word in a grammar as having the same meaning.
(4) In markup languages such as SGML, XML, and HTML, a token representing the start or end of an element.
(5) A type of structured field used for indexing in an AFP document. Tags associate an index attribute-value pair with a specific page or group of pages in a document.
(6) A mechanism used to identify certain attributes having some bearing on handling of character data. Some examples are character set identifier, code page identifier, language identifier, country identifier, and encoding scheme identifier.
(7) In UN/EDIFACT EDI Standards, the segment identifier. In export and import, a code that is assigned to each field in the database and used to identify the field in the export file. Such export files are known as tagged files.
(8) A word or phrase that users create and assign to an asset. Users create tags to develop search criteria that is meaningful to themselves.