The character set in the XML
declaration line tells the language encoding for the file. You should be fine with
UTF-8 in most cases. Also, notice that you do not need to close these two elements;
"http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd">
The rest is very much like HTML. It is mandatory for an XHTML MP document to
have html, head, title, and body elements. You can specify meta tags and other
document-specific information within the head element. The body element must
have at least one element in it.
Yes, it's that simple!
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Fundamentals of XHTML MP
Now that we have seen how the homepage works, let us learn some more about
XHTML MP.
Before Writing Further Code, Let's Learn
Some Grammar
Since XHTML MP is based on XHTML, certain syntactical rules must be followed.
Making syntactical errors is a good way to learn a programming language, but so
that you don't get frustrated with them, here are some rules you must follow with
XHTML MP! Remember, HTML is very forgiving in terms of syntax, but make a
small syntax error in XHTML MP and the browser may refuse to show your page!
Overall, XHTML elements consist of a start tag??”element name and its attributes,
element content, and closing tag.
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