Well-formed or wellformed indicate syntactic correctness and may refer to:
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Well-formedness
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In linguistics, well-formedness is the quality of a clause, word, or other linguistic element that conforms to the grammar of the language of which it is a part. Well-formed words or phrases are grammatical, meaning they obey all releva ...
, quality of linguistic elements that conform to grammar rules
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Well-formed formula
In mathematical logic, propositional logic and predicate logic, a well-formed formula, abbreviated WFF or wff, often simply formula, is a finite sequence of symbols from a given alphabet that is part of a formal language.
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, a string that is generated by a formal grammar in logic
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Well-formed element
In web page design, and generally for all markup languages such as SGML, HTML, and XML, a well-formed element is one that is either a) opened and subsequently closed, or b) an empty element, which in that case must be terminated; and in either ...
, web design element that is properly designed and ordered
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Well-formed document A well-formed document in XML is a document that "adheres to the syntax rules specified by the XML 1.0 specification in that it must satisfy both physical and logical structures".
Requirements
At its base level well-formed documents require that:
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, XML document that adheres to the syntax rules of the XML 1.0 specification
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Well-formed Petri net, a Petri net class
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Well-formed scale
In music theory, a generated collection is a set (music), collection or scale (music), scale formed by repeatedly adding a constant interval (music), interval in integer notation, the generator, also known as an interval cycle, around the chromati ...
, a class of musical scales
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