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WML - Website META Language The Website META Language (WML) is a programming language created by Ralf S. Engelschall to build HTML code - thus a metalanguage (see thewml.org/). It provides a convenient way to create and maintain complex static web sites (as opposed to the dynamic Web sites we'll create later with CGI, mod_perl, Embperl, Mason, etc.). It's especially useful for maintaining a consistent look and feel across the Web site. As such, it's a step up from plan HTML for building a web site, and is easier to use and less complex than the dynamic web tools we'll study in later chapters. If your site serves up a large number of static web pages, with WML you can change all the pages by changing one template and then executing a make-like command. Another advantage of using WML is that after compilation, there's no more server-side processing; in contrast, the dynamic languages we'll discuss later have to be executed on the server when they are called. In addition, with WML the client-side browser gains a speed advantage from being able to cache the static pages. WML Links
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EXAMPLES:
hello1.wml:
hello2.wml:
hello3.wml:
page1.wml:
page2.wml:
navbar.wml:
xtable1.wml:
xtable2.wml:
diversion.wml:
template1.wml:
.wmlrc:
define.wml:
eperl1.wml:
eperl2.wml:
eperl3.wml:
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