XML and Wireless Technologies
It took just a few years for XML to penetrate just about everywhere in the Internet. But the triumph of XML has continued even after that—to wireless technologies.
Need for Wireless Web
Users have long been able to receive messages on mobile devices. It makes sense that devices made for communicating would someday be extended to interact with the World Wide Web. Mobile solutions needed a lightweight markup language that can be used within a small device with limited computational resources, such as a mobile phone to access resources made available through the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP).
It is very tempting to be able to do almost everything you can do with the Internet using your cell phone. Cell phones ...
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