IP Phone Administrator Guide How to Create an XML Application

Appendix G

How to Create an XML Application

This Appendix describes how to create an XML application for your IP phones. Sections in this appendix include:

Creating XML Objects

XML Schema File

XML format

The text in the Aastra XML objects must be compliant with XML recommendations and special characters must be escape encoded. The default character set for the XML API is ISO-8859-1.

Character

Description

Escape Sequence

&

Ampersand

&

 

 

 

"

Quote

"

 

 

 

Apostrophe

'

 

 

 

<

Left angle bracket

<

 

 

 

>

Right angle bracket

>

 

 

 

Creating XML Objects

This section describes how to create XML objects.

The Aastra IP phone XML API supports four proprietary objects that allow the creation of menu screens, message screens, input screens, and directory screens:

Text Menu Object (Menu Screens)

Text Screen Object (Message Screens)

UserInput Object (User Input Screens)

Directory Object (Directory List Screen) (480i only)

Status Message Object (Idle Screen)

Execute Commands Object (for executing XML commands)

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