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One of my objectives for Kquestion is for it to be able to parse and generate an XML of multiple choice questions. That’s because I think typing the questions into a template will be a lot quicker than using the application, however, both methods should be available. I’m going talk about the different formats of multiple choice question and then in another post how I’ve implemented them in XML and then talk about the document type definition created for the format.

Isolated single questions

This type of question consists of question text and a list of possible answers. They are isolated in that the question and the answers are used only once.

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XML is used to store Information about something in a logical format. Information is data that has meaning and that meaning can be represented in XML via its structure. A well written XML schema should be easy to understand and follow. Data should be stored within elements (sometimes referred to as tags) whereas information about the data (metadata) should be stored in attributes.

Below is the XML structure I devised to contain the information about the different questions types discussed in my ‘Multiple Choice Question Formats‘ post. I will refer to the element that contains the different question types as the question type element but in reality the name of the question type element will change depending on the question type.

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