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mapping
In conversions between data formats or communications protocols, the process of relating each source encoding to a target encoding and identifying the translation that satisfies the relationship. In an over-simplified example, a mapping might specify that all occurrences of <foo> will be translated to <bar> where <foo> and <bar> identify the same functionality in two different markup languages. It can be difficult or impossible to satisfactorily map between two formats/protocols to the extent they do not share the same or very similar functionality, a condition known as incompatibility.See also: convert, incompatible