Chapter 20. WML, ASP, JSP, Servlets, and Perl

This chapter covers a number of topics, including Wireless Markup Language (WML), a popular XML application targeted at cordless phones, PDAs, and other relatively simple devices that support the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). WML is easy to use; you can find it in many places these days, and WAP servers are popping up all over. This chapter takes a look at creating WML documents and viewing them in WML browsers (often called microbrowsers).

This chapter is also about using XML with existing server technologies such as Active Server Pages (ASP), Java Server Pages (JSP), Java servlets, and Perl. A lot of companies are jumping on the XML-on-the-Internet bandwagon, with a resulting explosion of ...

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