3. The WML Methodology

• WML makes 9 passes at the input file:

1. Source Reading and Include File Expansion (ipp)
2. HTML Macro Construct Expansion (mp4h) (Meta-tags, conditionals, etc)
3. Perl 5 Programming Construct Expansion (eperl)
4. M4 Macro Construct Expansion (gm4)
5. Diversion Filter (divert) - diverting text to different locations
6. Character and String Substitution (asubst)
7. HTML Fixup (htmlfix)
8. Line Stripping and Output Fixup (htmlstrip)
9. Output Splitting and Final Writing (slice)

Written by Shlomi Fish