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Wireless Markup Language (WML) Document

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Summary

Name
Wireless Markup Language (WML) Document
Version
1.1
Identifiers
  • PUID: fmt/1796
  • MIME: text/vnd.wap.wml
Format type
Text (Mark-up)
Description
Wireless Markup Language (wml) is an XML-based markup language created by the WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) Forum in the late 1990s. It was intended for mobile devices which were limited by bandwidth, memory and CPU capabilities, such as mobile phones, providing text and image presentation, forms, data input and hyperlinks, much like html. WAP died out in the early 2000s. It had been developed and supported by the WAP forum, which no longer exists, and has been subsumed by the Open Mobile Alliance.
Note
Specification: http://www.wapforum.org/what/technical.htmandhttp://www.wapforum.org/what/technical/wml-30-apr-98.pdf
File extensions
wml
Source
Stadtarchiv Hof / Stadtarchiv Hof

Relationships

Has priority over

Internal signatures

Wireless Markup Language (WML) Document

Note
BOF Absolute from beginning of file, magic bytes: <?xml version="1.0"{0-75}<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML{20-200}<wml> EOF, offset 0-6, magic bytes: </card>{0-6}</wml>{0-2}

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
0
Byte Sequence
3C3F786D6C2076657273696F6E3D22312E3022{0-75}3C21444F435459504520776D6C205055424C494320222D2F2F574150464F52554D2F2F44544420574D4C{20-200}3C776D6C3E
Endianness
None
Min Frag Length
Absolute from EOF
Offset
0
Max offset
5
Byte Sequence
3C2F636172643E{0-6}3C2F776D6C3E
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • Updated in V114

    Release date
    22 August 2023

    Wireless Markup Language (WML) Document: Offset and signature modified for the EOF byte sequence to remove floating curly brackets from the signature for consistency. Submitted by Preservica.

  • Added in V110

    Release date
    14 March 2023

    Wireless Markup Language (WML) Document: Signature researched and samples provided by Stadtarchiv Hof.

    Wireless Markup Language (WML) Document: Full entry added. Submitted by Stadtarchiv Hof.