The following questions will help you focus on the points of your reading that you must understand from each chapter. The questions appear in the list in the order in which the information appears in the text. With very rare exceptions, you can copy the answer right out of the book and have these "notes" serve as notes to study. Alternatively, you could underline the text in the book and label it in relation to the question. While the later method is faster, the former is a better learning tool.

Chapter 1
1. What's the difference between XML and HTML?
2. Encoded Archival Description is a DTD. What does that mean?
3. What part of a document does XML describe?
4. What does XML not describe?
5. What data format does XML use? Why is this good?
6. XML is what is called an "open standard." Why is that good?
7. What is an "editor" program? Name three.
8. What's a "parser"?
9. What's a "browser"?
10. When you send an XML document to a user, what must accompany it?
11. Name two types of XML style sheets. What's the difference between them?
12. What does URL stand for? What is a URL?
13. What does URI stand for? How does a URI differ from a URL?
14. What's the difference bwteeen XLINK and XPOINTER?
15. What is "unicode"?