Real World XML

Text Input

WML also supports an <input> element. If you set this element's type attribute to text, you can display a text field, much like HTML text fields (note that not all microbrowsers will support this element).

Here's an example. In this case, I'll let the user enter the URI of a local file to navigate to in a text field. When the user clicks a <do> element labeled Go, the browser will navigate to that URI. I begin by creating the text field:

<?xml version="1.0"?> 
<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 2.0//EN"
    "http://www.wapforum.org/dtd/wml20.dtd" >
<wml>
    <card id="Card1" title="Text Input">
        <p align="center"><b>Text Input</b></p>
        <p>
             Navigate to:
					<input type="text" name="uri"/>
    .
    .
    .

When the user clicks the <do> element, we'll ...