Bela Thakkar Charleston, WV Bela Suchdev is mother of three, working, and now going back to school.Bela recieved a degree in Homeopathy Medicine at the age of 23 from Anand Homeopathic college in India.She is happily married and all her children are driving now!She has been living in U.S.A for almost 25 years. Before taking XML class, Bela has taken one more class online with UMUC.She plans to continue her education in Computer Science.She is working as a biller and manager for husband's medical practice for 18 years and has had a great success.Besides, she has volunteered at local Highschool and Indian organization of Charleston WV. Bela would wish more people would get to know classes offered at UMUC - online.This class was definately worth taking and Professor Johnson has taught very well all the aspect of XML. I learned how to write XML Vocabulary and complimenting DTD as well as Schema.Understanding of Namespace is also covered. For final project Bela will write two XML documents with name spaces and possibly XSL or CSS stylesheet.I want to thank Professor Johnson for encouraging me to learn XML.Bela is excited that she now knows how to make a web site using free tools provided by Wiki.Overall this class has been stepping stone of the future classes. Makeda Heard Baltimore, MD Makeda Heard is a returning student to UMUC. She began her studies on her first bachelor's degree when her oldest daughter was 19 months old in 1976. She was studying at a local community college and transferred to UMUC through Mind Extension University. She was married at the time and her surname was White. She is now happily divorced and all her children are grown. She has five grandchildren ranging in ages from newborn to 5 years of age. CMIS170 is her second computer course attempted after her return to UMUC in summer of 2011. Makeda works for Johns Hopkins at the Bayview campus and wears many hats. She is responsible for two websites. While studying and learning XML she not only was getting closer to her goal of graduation but also reviewing technology and thinking about ways XML might be used at work. Makeda definitely would recommend this class to other students. Tiffany Johnson her professor was patient, fair and kind. To date they learned how to write well-formed XML documents, how to write documents using DTD and schemas. This week the students are learning style sheets (XLST) for XML documents and current uses for XML. This final project is primarily based on the first two projects using DTD and XSD nomenclatures. If time permits Makeda definitely would like to use an XLST as well to make the final product more acceptable.