Part Iii Fundamentals Of Mobile Content; Overview Of The Process - BEA WebLogic User Manual

Part III Fundamentals of Mobile Content

Part III Fundamentals of Mobile Content

Overview of the Process

This section provides an overview of the process used in creating web applications that target a
variety of devices.
Three Steps to Creating and Delivering your Service
There are three basic steps in preparing content so that it can be displayed on multiple devices:
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Creating your content in XHTML format.
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Organizing the page content into logical divisions.
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Deciding how you want your content to be presented on different devices.
Create your content in XHTML format
All documents that are processed by WebLogic Mobility Server must follow XHTML 1.0
standards. XHTML has stricter mark-up standards than HTML. All tags, for example, must
terminate correctly, either with a closing tag, or, for empty tags, by putting a closing slash before
the final angle bracket.
All documents that are processed by WebLogic Mobility Server must follow XHTML 1.0
standards. XHTML has stricter mark-up standards than HTML. All tags, for example, must
terminate correctly, either with a closing tag, or, for empty tags, by putting a closing slash before
the final angle bracket.
If you are converting legacy content containing HTML mark-up, there are a number of tools
available to automate the process of converting HTML to XHTML. The Developer Toolkit on
CD2 includes HTML Tidy
MX also provides built-in XHTML clean-up and conversion utilities.
You can use any authoring environment to develop your XHTML content. This content can be
either , where the page does not change, or
static
generate content.
Organize the page content into logical divisions
Since the amount of content you can display depends on screen size, you will want to divide your
content into logical units called
displayed on specific devices. You can take advantage of the natural divisions in your document
(such as tables and forms) or you can explicitly create your own groups. For example, you might
arrange a news page into national, regional and local news groups.
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, a popular tool for converting HTML files to XHMTL. Dreamweaver
groups . This will give you more flexibility in deciding what gets
, where you use JSP to dynamically
dynamic