Wireless Markup Language - Definition and Overview

Wireless Markup Language is the primary content format for devices that implement the WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) specification based on XML, such as mobile phones.

For example, the following WML page could be saved as "example.wml":

 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//PHONE.COM//DTD WML 1.1//EN" "http://www.phone.com/dtd/wml11.dtd" >
 <wml>
   <card id="main">
     <p mode="wrap">This is a sample WML page.</p>
   </card>
 </wml>

WML pages can be stored on a web server. After this, they can be accessed using their normal URL, for example http://example.com/foo.wml, if the mobile phone operator has not specifically prevented this.

WML will be replaced by XHTML Basic in the near future as more compliant user agents are developed.

The PC browser Opera also supports WML.

See also

• C-HTML
• Microbrowser