Creating Websites for the 4620 IP Telephone
Character Entities
C-15
■<timer> tag - The timer tag sets a timer that starts counting. This tag must be used with
<onevent type="ontimer"> to be useful.
Character Entities 5
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 '&#060;'.
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 '&lt;'. 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.
Attribute Value Description Comments
value cdata REQUIRED. Sets the
default value of the
variable defined in the
"name" attribute
SUPPORTED
name nmtoken REQUIRED. Names
the variable that is set
with the value of the
timer
SUPPORTED
Description Symbol Numeric Entity Name Entity
double quotation “&#34; &quot;
ampersand &&#38; &amp;
apostrophe ‘&#39; &apos;
less than <&#60;