[thelist] WAP gateway issues

[Åhman Jens]

Sometimes it can be a problem with whitespace/blanklines in the beginning of
the WML Document.

You always start with a DTD- Declaration similar to this;

Example;

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//PHONE.COM//DTD WML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.phone.com/dtd/wml11.dtd" >

In some gateways you cant have whitespace or a blank line before the DTD
declaration. If you are using ASP to develop WAP Sites, it might look
something like this;


<%@ Language=VBScript%>

<%

Some magic mumbojumbo ASP- Code here

%>
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//PHONE.COM//DTD WML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.phone.com/dtd/wml11.dtd" >

As you can see from this example the WML generated will start with a blank
line, no good.

It should look like this;

<%@ Language=VBScript%>

<%

Some magic mumbojumbo ASP- Code here

%><?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//PHONE.COM//DTD WML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.phone.com/dtd/wml11.dtd" >

Now, there will be no whitespace or blank lines before the declaration of
the DTD.

Hope this is somewhat useful!

Kind regards,

Jens Åhman