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XML, The Way Of The Future Trivia Quiz

XML is becoming the industry standard for distributed applications data transfer. How much do you think you know about it?

A multiple-choice quiz by nakhob. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
nakhob

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
113,850

Updated
Jan 22 23

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
1081

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. What does XML stand for? Hint

eXternal Markup Language

eXtreme Markup Language

eXtensible Markup Language

eXpert Markup Language

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Question 2 of 10

2. What is an XML string embedded in an HTML document called? Hint

Web service

Data island

XML node

Virtual object

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Question 3 of 10

3. XML is a hierarchical data structure.

True

False

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which of the following can be used to produce HTML from an XML document? Hint

XSLT

XSD

DTD

DOM

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which of the following is not a correct XPath expression? Hint

../@something

.//type="something"

something[@type="somethingelse"]

.//mynode[@attr1="val" And @attr2="val"]

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Question 6 of 10

6. Which of the following is an XML based specification for distributed applications that is used for communications over HTTP? Hint

HREF

DCOM

SOAP

ISAPI

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Question 7 of 10

7. The ______ qualifies element names uniquely on the Web in order to avoid conflicts between elements with the same name.

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 8 of 10

8. Which of the following is not an XML parser? Hint

JAXP

SAX

XMLHttp

MSXML

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Question 9 of 10

9. True or False? XML is a subset of SGML.

True

False

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Question 10 of 10

10. Which of the following is a valid XSLT iteration command? Hint

for

loop

for-all

for-each

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What does XML stand for?

Answer: eXtensible Markup Language

XML is very useful for sending and receiving data across the Internet. It is a standard for data structure that is platform independent.

2. What is an XML string embedded in an HTML document called?

Answer: Data island

Data Islands are a good way of making small amount of data available to the client browser. They can be bound to other HTML elements such as TABLE.

3. XML is a hierarchical data structure.

Answer: True

All XML nodes are nested into other parent nodes. Each XML string must have a single base node.

4. Which of the following can be used to produce HTML from an XML document?

Answer: XSLT

More generally, XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) is used to convert a source tree into a result tree, which is often HTML.

5. Which of the following is not a correct XPath expression?

Answer: .//type="something"

When querying for attribute values, the attribute name must be prefixed with the symbol @.

6. Which of the following is an XML based specification for distributed applications that is used for communications over HTTP?

Answer: SOAP

SOAP stands for Simple Object Access Protocol. SOAP is useful for Web Services.

7. The ______ qualifies element names uniquely on the Web in order to avoid conflicts between elements with the same name.

Answer: Namespace

Namespaces can also be used to differenciate elements with the same name inside an XML document. For example, rs:Field and z:Field have the same node name in two different namespaces (rs and z).

8. Which of the following is not an XML parser?

Answer: XMLHttp

XmlHttp Provides client-side protocol support for communication with HTTP servers.

9. True or False? XML is a subset of SGML.

Answer: True

SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) gave birth to XML in 1998.

10. Which of the following is a valid XSLT iteration command?

Answer: for-each

Source: Author nakhob

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