| Subject | English | French |
| comp., MS | conceptual schema definition language | Conceptual Schema Definition Language (An XML-based language that is used to define the entity types, associations, entity containers, entity sets, and association sets of a conceptual model) |
| comp., MS | store schema definition language | Store Schema Definition Language (An XML-based language that is used to define the entity types, associations, entity containers, entity sets, and association sets of a storage model, often corresponding to a database schema) |
| comp., MS | XML schema definition language | langage de définition de schéma XML (The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard language used for creating XML schema documents. The XML schema contains two parts: a set of predefined types (for example, string, dateTime, decimal), and an XML language for defining new types (for example, complexType, minOccurs, element)) |