XML and ADO.NET Questions

• XML technology is a hybrid of document processing and database processing.
• You can validate an XML Schema document against its schema, just as you would any other XML document.
• SOAP uses HTTP as its only transport mechanism.
• With XSLT, you specify a procedure for materializing document elements.
• It took the popularity of the Internet to realize that database processing and document processing need each other.
• Schemas consist of properties and methods
• SOAP is now just a name, not an acronym.
• Web page display is the most important application of XML.
• The DTD defines the structure of XML documents.
• FOR XML EXPLICIT tells SQL Server to place the values of the columns as attributes in the resulting XML document.
• XML Schemas are XML documents.
• XSLT processors are context-oriented; each statement is evaluated in the context of the match that has been made.
• Stylesheets are used by XSLT to indicate how to transform the elements of the XML document into another format.
• With XML, document structure, content and format are all defined within one document.
• XML Schema is used to define the content, structure and format of documents.
• XML uses the same terms with the same meanings as terms in the database world.
• Datasets which reside on the user's hard drive are created by ADO.NET to facilitate the transformation of XML documents to and from relational database constructs.
• If a document does not conform to the DTD, it is a bad XML document.
• The most popular way to materialize XML documents is to use XSLT.
• Documents that have no DTD are by definition not-type-valid.