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As with any syntactic language, WML has certain characters that have special meaning. The two most obvious of these characters are the < and > symbols, which surround all tags. These characters cannot be typed in directly if the designer's intent is to display these characters. Thus, all characters that can be displayed in a web browser have numeric values assigned to them. The numeric values are entered into the source web page as &#nnn; where nnn is a three-digit value. For example, the < symbol is entered as '<'.
In addition, many of these characters also have names assigned. Name values are entered into the source web page as &name; where name is the WML name associated with this character. For example, the < symbol would be entered as '<'. The set of characters defined by the World Wide Web Consortium are fully supported in the 4620 browser in conformance with the standard.
For convenience, a few of these key symbols are specified below.
| Description |
Symbol |
Numeric Entity |
Name Entity |
|---|---|---|---|
| double quotation |
“ |
" |
" |
| ampersand |
& |
& |
& |
| apostrophe |
‘ |
' |
' |
| less than |
< |
< |
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