Other Languages
As stated at the beginning of the chapter, the WAP Forum is on a road to convergence with the W3C, and the specifications for WML 2.0 is currently planned to be inline with XHTML (the XML version of HTML). Until this happens, it is worth noting that today WML is indeed an XML application. As XML browsers begin to permeate the market, developers can begin to move away from writing HTML and simply use XML along with Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL).
XML tags within a document describe what the elements of the document are, rather than what they look like. The XSL does the job of describing how a given element should be displayed based on the device that is rendering the element. Take for example our employee database. Using ...
Get WAP Development with WML and WMLScript now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
