Learn WML in minutes (2)

Card ID

On the next line you have to enter the card id and the title of the page. Unlike HTML the title of the page will not be displayed in a separate area, but as you can see from the picture in the first line of the card. 

All opened tags must be closed again, because the WMl-parser would produce an error message. HTML-programmers can use many of the same tags for WML, which makes the whole work a lot easier. 

A few example for identical tags would be  <p>, <b>, <i>, <br>, <a>.

If needed, you can program several cards within the same WML-file. For beginners it’s probably preferable to program each card in a separate file, though.  . 

Despite all of this the following is an example of a WML-file with more than one card.

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN"

"http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml">

<wml>

<!—The wml program starts here-->

<card id="card1">

<!-Start of the first card-->

<!--id is the card name-->

<p>

<do type="accept">

<go href="#card2>

</do>

<!--The do-element will be explained later-->

<!-More text-->

</p>

</card>

<card id="card2">

<p>

<!-More text-->

</p>

</card>

<!-Learn more about text and attributes within the next pages-->

</wml>

Card elements

Each element in WML has a start-tag, a content and an end-tag. The exception are comments, which are not visible for the end-user, but for the programmers.  

Empty tags

Elements with no end-tag, must have a  / at the end.

Example: Either <go href="#Cardname">

</go>

or <go href="#Cardname"/>

Creating comments

The creating of comments is fairly easy: 

<!-This is a comment for the programmer. It can be as long as needed.-->

Sometimes you might need tags without any content. These are created in the following way: 

<tag exampleattribute="ccWAP X-press course">

Content

</tag>

Masks

There is a need for special masks, because some signs or letters are used to program WML.    

Example: In case you have a > in your text, you can’t simply write it, but rather you have to write &gt; .  The > is already in use for many programming features.   

Let’s take a look at the most common masks:

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