2.3 Xml0100 writing xml review

Table of contents

• Preface
• Questions
  • 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50
• Listings
• Answers
• Miscellaneous

Preface

This material is published in support of the course identified as ITSE 1356 - Extensible Markup Language (XML) at Austin Community College in Austin, TX. As of the Spring 2014semester, the textbook for this course is XML: Visual QuickStart Guide, 2nd Edition. By Kevin Howard Goldberg.

This module contains review questions, answers, and explanations keyed to the Introduction and Chapter 1 of the textbook.

The questions and the answers are connected by hyperlinks to make it easy for you to navigate from the question to the answer and back again.

Questions

Question 1 .

True or False: XML is an abbreviation for "eXtending More Leverage."

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Question 2

True or False: XML is a specification for storing information.

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Question 3

True or False: XML is a specification for describing the structure of information.

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Question 4

True or False: XML has a large vocabulary of predefined tags.

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Question 5

True or False: XML is a markup language.

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Question 6

True or False: XML is a set of rules for defining custom markup languages.

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Question 7

True or False: The XML specification makes it possible for people to define their own markup languages so that others cannot use those markup languages.

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Question 8

True or False: HTML is a language for storing and carrying information while XML is a language for displaying information.

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Question 9

True or False: XML is easily extended and adapted.

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Question 10

True or False: While XML works well with computers, it was not designed to be easily read by humans.

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Question 11

True or False: XML is a proprietary specification that was invented by Microsoft.

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Question 12

True or False: While HTML is used to format data for display, XML describes and is the data.

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Question 13

True or False: All modern browsers know how to display an XML document in the manner intended by the author of the document.

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Question 14

True or False: One way to specify how an XML document is to be displayed is by using XSL or eXtensible Stylesheet Language.

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Question 15

True or False: XSL is made up of three languages: XSLT, XPath, and XML.

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Question 16

True or False: Because every author is free to define her own tags, it is not possible to define the structure of an XML document.

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Question 17

True or False: All standard browsers can read XML documents, use XML schemas (DTD and XML Schema), and interpret XSL to format and display XML documents.

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Question 18

True or False: It is common practice to use XML to manage and organize information and to use XSL to convert the XML into HTML.