Representation domain
Representation
Differences between visible, serialized, encoded, and machine-readable forms.
9 concepts
mt.representation.normalization
A transformation that maps multiple surface representations into a standardized representation for comparison, parsing, or processing.
- Layers
- unicode · text · serialization
- Normalization
- high
- Synchronization
- none
- Evidence
- transformation
mt.representation.human_visible
The content and structure ordinarily perceived from the rendered artifact without inspecting internal machine-oriented representations.
- Layers
- visual
- Normalization
- context dependent
- Synchronization
- none
- Evidence
- observation
mt.representation.machine_readable
Information recoverable by software from bytes, code points, source, metadata, parsed structure, or other machine-facing representations.
- Layers
- bytes · unicode · dom · metadata · tokenizer
- Normalization
- context dependent
- Synchronization
- none
- Evidence
- representation
mt.representation.differential
A reproducible difference between two valid representations of the same artifact, such as visual, parsed, accessibility, byte-level, or model-ingestion views.
- Layers
- bytes · unicode · dom · accessibility · visual · metadata · tokenizer
- Normalization
- context dependent
- Synchronization
- none
- Evidence
- observation · detection
mt.representation.unicode_code_point
The numeric identifier assigned by Unicode to a character or control function, independent of how that code point is rendered as a glyph.
- Layers
- unicode
- Normalization
- medium
- Synchronization
- none
- Evidence
- representation
mt.representation.invisible_unicode
Unicode code points present in text that may have no ordinary visible glyph while remaining machine-readable and potentially affecting parsing or layout.
- Layers
- unicode · visual
- Normalization
- high
- Synchronization
- rule
- Evidence
- carrier · representation
mt.representation.dom
The browser-accessible tree representation produced by parsing HTML, which can differ materially from the page as visually rendered.
- Layers
- dom · html
- Normalization
- context dependent
- Synchronization
- none
- Evidence
- representation
mt.representation.metadata
Structured information describing an artifact or its context rather than forming the artifact’s primary visible content.
- Layers
- metadata
- Normalization
- context dependent
- Synchronization
- none
- Evidence
- carrier · representation