SABARAGAMUWA UNIVERSITY OF SRI LANKA

FACULTY OF APPLIED SCIENCES

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTING & INFORMATION SYSTEMS
BSc DEGREE PROGRAMME IN COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
YEAR II SEMESTER I EXAMINATION JUNE 2021
ONLINE TAKE HOME EXAMINATIONS

IS 22226 - WEB TECHNOLOGIES

Start Date and Time : 09-07-2021 14.00 PM

End Date and Time : 09-07-2021 18.00 PM

Instructions to candidates:

1. Please refer to the Online Take Home Examination Policy (Student’s Perspective)
Guide for advice on setting out your assignment.
2. Students must upload the signed copy with the answer sheets.
3. Marks for the question 1(a), 1(b), 1(c), 1(d), and 1(e) allocated as given in the marks
column in the table. Fifteen (15) marks allocated for creating the XML file in question
number 1.
4. File types of the questions should be as follows:
a. Q1 – XML file (RegNo_q1.xml)
b. Q2, Q3, Q4 – XSL files (RegNo_q2.xsl, RegNo_q3.xsl, RegNo_q4.xsl)

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 Online Take Home Examination

Learning outcomes
LO1: Explain the challenges in Web 2.0.
LO2: Develop eXtensible Markup Language (XML) database.
LO3: Create XSL file to extract data from the XML file

Question 01
Find the answers for questions in the following table and create an XML file to store the data in
the following table with the answers.

Q/No Question Answer Marks

1a What are the challenges in web 2.0, …………………… 15 Marks
and how to face them? …………
1b “Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) …………………… 10 Marks
is a secure protocol”. Do you agree …………
with this statement? Justify your
answer.
1c Discuss the advantages of the …………………… 10 Marks
Extensible Markup Language (XML). …………..
1d “Web 2.0 applications can be used to …………………… 15 Marks
control the spread of COVID-19 ………….
patients“. Discuss this statement.
1e “Ontology can be used for knowledge 10 Marks
representation”. Do you agree with this ……………………
statement? Justify your answer. ………….

[LO1, LO2] [60 + 15 Marks]

Question 02

Create an eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) file to display all the
questions in the above table and the relevant answers.

[LO3] [10 Marks]

Question 03

Create an XSLT file to display the questions start with character D.

[LO3] [10 Marks]

Question 04

Create an XSLT file to display the question number and answer of the last question.

[LO3] [05 Marks]