User's Manual Part 2

186 Terms and definitions
Preliminary
WAP
Wireless Application Protocol is a specification for a set of
communication protocols to standardize the way that wireless
devices, such as cellular telephones and radio transceivers, can
be used for Internet access, including e-mail, the World Wide
Web, newsgroups, and Internet Relay Chat (IRC).
Wav
A Wave file is an audio file format, created by Microsoft, that
has become a standard PC audio file format for everything from
system and game sounds to CD-quality audio. A Wave file is
identified by a file name extension of WAV (.wav).
WBXML
Wireless Binary Extensible Markup Language.
WIM
The Wireless Identity Module is a data module for electronic
identity certificates. It can contain both trusted and client
certificates, private keys and algorithms needed for WTLS
handshaking, encryption, decryption, and signature generation.
The WIM module can be placed on a SIM card, called a SWIM
card.
WML
Wireless Markup Language. A markup language used for
authoring services, fulfilling the same purpose as HyperText
Markup Language (HTML) does on the World Wide Web
(WWW).IncontrasttoHTML,WMLisdesignedtofitsmall
handheld devices.
WTLS
Wireless Transport Layer Security. Part of WAP, WTLS
provides privacy, data integrity and authentication on transport
layer level between two applications.
W3C
The main standards body for the WWW.
xHTML
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language. A reformulation of
HTML 4.01 in XML. Being XML, means that XHTML can be
viewed, edited, and validated with standard XML tools. At the
same time, it operates as well as or better than HTML 4 in
existing HTML 4 conforming user agents.
XML
Extensible Markup Language. An initiative from the W3C
defining an “extremely simple” dialect of SGML suitable for
use on the WWW.
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