CS311 GDB 1 Solution and Discussion

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In XML, some characters have a special meaning those are called ______.

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A servlet life cycle can be defined as the entire process from its creation till the ___________.

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A servlet life cycle can be defined as the entire process from its creation till the ___________.

• destruction

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Which of the following is true about JDOM Parser?

• Java JDOM Parser - Overview. JDOM is an open source, Java-based library to parse XML documents. It is typically a Java developer friendly API. It is Java optimized and it uses Java collections like List and Arrays.

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For all XML documents, which of the following is true? CS311

All XML elements must have a closing tag.
All XML documents must have a DTD or an XML schema.
All XML elements must be lowercase.
All of the statements are true.

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XML often contains new line, or _______ space characters, between nodes.

XML often contains new line, or white space characters, between nodes.

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XML files can be stored on an Internet server exactly the same way as ________ files. CS311

XML files can be stored on an Internet server exactly the same way as HTML

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Which of the following is the correct syntax to define the XML version? CS311

Syntax Rules for XML declaration
 The XML declaration is case sensitive and must begin with “<?xml>” where “xml” is written
in lower-case.
 If document contains XML declaration, then it strictly needs to be the first statement of the
XML document.
 The XML declaration strictly needs be the first statement in the XML document.
 An HTTP protocol can override the value of encoding that you put in the XML declaration.

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Node object can have ________________. CS311

• Node object can have only one parent node object. This occupies the position above all the
  nodes. Here it is Company. (Page 204)

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How many types of cookies are in servlets? CS311

• There are 2 types of cookies in servlets.

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Which method does SAX use for processing XML documents? CS311

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1. Which method does SAX use for processing XML documents?

a) Event Based
b) DocumentHandler
c) Document
d) Tree based

Answer : a

2. Which method does DOM use for processing XML documents?

a) Event Based
b) DocumentHandler
c) Document
d) Tree based

Answer : d

3. Which interfaces are part of the SAX2 API?

a) ContentHandler, ErrorHandler, DTDHandler, EntityResolver
b) DocumentHandler, ErrorHandler, DTDHandler, EntityHandler
c) DocumentHandler, Errorhandler, DTDHandler, SchemaHandler
d) DocumentHandler, Errorhandler, DTDHandler, EntityResolver

Answer : a

4. Which is the best description of the “characters()” method?

a) a method of DOM API to insert character data in the XML document
b) a method of the SAX ContentHandler interface to receive notification
of the presence of character data
c) a method of the DOM interface to replace the entity reference
with the character data
d) None of these.

Answer : b

5. An XML document to be processed is very large. The application extracts a small portion of the information from the document. Memory and speed may be constraints. Which method or methods are most appropriate for this situation?

a) Use SAX
b) Use DOM
c) Extract the necessary information and process using XSLT.
d) Use a schema-based approach.

Answers : a

6. When you construct an XML using a DOM enabled Parser, the same parser should be used to process back
   the XML document when the process involves legacy applications, otherwise it is not necessary to do so.

a) Not really
b) Yes, whenver the process is between legacy conectivity this is better.
c) You can use SAX enabled parser to fill this gap.
d) This statement is not a correct one, because DOM is constructed using IDL.

Answer : d

7. When Processing Instructions are a part of your parsing process, DOM should be used,
   since SAX cannot be used to detect a Processing Instruction in a document.

a)true
b)false

Answer : a

8. Consider a system which is memory & speed constraint. The application is to process XML documents,
   sort the contents and mail them to a higher configuration machine for transformation. Which is the best approach?

a) Use platform native language to process the docuements
b) Use DOM based approach.
c) Using SAX based approach is the best.
d) DOM and SAX must be used in this context.

Answer : b

9. When receiving documents from a non-trusted agent, the best way to process the documents is:

a) Use SAX
b) Use DOM
c) Both can be used here.
d) Both can be used but validity is an issue here.

Answer: d

10. In DOM, the Document interface is the only interface that allows you to create other DOM document components.

a)true
b)false

Answer: a

11. XSLT is essentially a tool for translating what kind of documents?

a) XML
b) PDF
c) DOM
d) RTF

Answers: a

12. Use of SAX based parser is most likely to be used in which of the following scenarios?

a) You want to process the document in a sequential order only.
b) The documents is very large.
c) When there is no need to validate XML documents.
d) The parser implements only SAX based approach.

Answers: a, b

13. DOM can be used to process HTML documents.

a)true
b)false

Answer: a

14. What error types does the SAX2 ErrorHandler interface handle?

a) informational, warning, fatal-error
b) warning, error, fatal-error
c) warning, error
d) informational, warning, error, fatal-error

Answer: b

15. A DOM-based parser should be used for which of the following situations?

a) Need to modify the XML document directly
b) Performance and/or memory is an issue
c) Need to have random access to the components of the XML document
d) Only need to process the XML document sequentially

Answer: a, c

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XML Quiz
For each question, choose the best choice out of the given choices.

1. What does XML stand for?
   A. X-Markup Language
   B. eXtra Modern Link
   C. Example Markup Language
   D. eXtensible Markup Language

2. XML’s goal is to replace HTML
   A. True
   B. False

3. What does DTD stand for?
   A. Direct Type Definition
   B. Document Type Definition
   C. Document Type Declaration

4. Is this a correct XML document?

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Teacher
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We are at Software Park, Thailand A. Yes **B. No**

5. Which statement is true?
   A. All XML elements must have a closing tag
   B. All XML documents must have a DTD or an XML schema
   C. All XML elements must be lowercase
   D. All of the statements are true

6. Which statement is true?
   A. XML tags are case sensitive
   B. XML elements must be properly nested
   C. XML documents must have the root element
   D. All the statements are true

7. XML preserves white spaces
   A. True
   B. False

8. Is this a correct XML document?

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A. No
B. Yes

9. XML elements cannot be empty
   A. True
   B. False

10. Which is not a correct name for an XML element?
    A.
    B.

    
    C. <1dollar>
    D. All 3 names are incorrect

11. Which is not a correct name for an XML element?
    A.
    B.
    C.
    D. All 3 names are incorrect

12. Which is not a correct name for an XML element?
    A.
    B.
    C.

13. For the XML parser to ignore a certain section of your XML document, which syntax is correct?
    A. <xml:CDATA[ Text to be ignored]>
    B. Text to be ignored
    C.

14. XML is a subset of SGML
    A. True
    B. False

15. XML attributes must be in double quotes
    A. True
    B. False

16. XML attributes must be assigned values
    A. True
    B. False

17. The Document Type Definition must be stored in an external file
    A. True
    B. False

18. What can XML do?
    A. The standard for automating data exchange between systems
    B. The standard for displaying data on the Web
    C. The standard for a cross-platform programming language

19. Which is false?
    A. XML is used to describe only structured data
    B. XML is used to only on the Internet
    C. XML is used to represent only simple data
    D. All of the above

20. Which of the following comments are not well formed?
    A.
    B.
    C.
    D.

21. Provided that the file x.dtd has the following contents. Which of the xml files are valid?

a.



text

b.


Element can
contain

c.

Sample

22. How can you declare in a DTD that the element x contains either the element a or the element b, but not both of them
    a)
    b)
    c)
    d) It is not possible to declare in a DTD that one element contains either the element a or the element b, but not both of them

23. How can you declare in a DTD that the element x contains the element a, or the element b, or both of them in the sequence a b.
    a)
    b)
    c)
    d) None of the declarations above does solve the problem.

24. How can you declare in a DTD that the empty element x has either the attribute a or the attribute b (or both of them). The attributes contain any value.
    a)

b)

c)

d) It is not possible to make the presence of one attribute depend on another attribute

25. How can you in a DTD declare that the element x contains both attributes a and b and that the order of them has to be ab? The attributes can contain any value
    a)

b)

c)

b CDATA #REQUIRED>

d) It is not possible to specify the order of attributes in a DTD. The order of attributes does not matter in XML.

e) It is not possible to specify the order of attributes in a DTD. The order of attributes can be specified only in an XML schema.

Valid names of elements and attributes start with a letter, an underscore or a colon, the following allowed characters are letters, numeric characters, colon, underscore, dot and hyphen (minus). Names which start with “xml” (in any case) are reserverd for W3C. The colon has a special meaning with namespaces and should not be used with any other semantic.