WAP
stands for Wireless Application Protocol and is the de facto worldwide standard
for providing Internet communications and advanced telephony services on digital
mobile phones, pagers, personal digital assistants, and other wireless
terminals. This PDF covers the following topics related to WAP and XML :
Overview of WAP, WAP and the Wireless World, WAP Application Architecture, WAP
Internal Structure, WAP versus WEB, WAP 1.2, XML: Introduction XML: An Eagle’s
Eye view of XML, XML Definition, Life of an XML Document, Related Technologies,
An introduction to XML Applications, XML Applications, XML for XML, First XML
Documents Structuring Data: Examining the Data XMLizing the data, The advantages
of the XML format, Preparing a style sheet for Document Display.
Author(s): Government Arts College For Women, Ramanathapuram
This note
covers the following topics: Limitations of mobile environment, Mobile
applications, WWW and mobility, Wireless application protocol, WAP protocol
stack and WAP application environment.