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ETH Zurich - Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering



Special WML tags

by  Gabi Simonovic <gabi@ee.ethz.ch>

Description ot special tags we use on some pages of our wml sites.

This document contains datailed description of the tags we use at some of our pages.

EVENT:LONG

Usage
Display event with description, normally in a page dedicated to a list of coming events.
Context
Any.
End-tag
Required. In body write short description of the event.
Parameters
title *
Title of the public event.
href
URL of the event.
day
Day of the event.
date
dd.mm.yy
time
Time of the event.
place
Place of the event.
Example
<EVENT:LONG DAY="<de>Donnerstag</de><en>Thursday</en>"
           DATE="21.11.2002"
           TIME="11.00-15.00"
           HREF="$(ROOT)/event/thinking.<de: de><en: en>.html"
           TITLE="R. thinking/dreaming about overpopulation"
           PLACE="">
Blutspendeaktion des Zürcher Blutspendedienstes SRK
mit Roza El-Hassan,<br/>
Universität Zürich Irchel, Bau 13-15, Foyer F
</EVENT:LONG>
Page
http://www.collegium.ethz.ch/event/index.en.html

EVENT:SHORT

Usage
Used for public events during semester.
Context
Any.
End-tag
Required. Body is ignored.
Parameters
title *
Title of the public event.
href
URL of the event.
day
Day of the event.
date
dd.mm.yy
time
Time of the event.
place
Place of the event.
Example
<EVENT:SHORT DATE="<de: 14.1.2002><en: 14 January 2002>"
            DAY="<de: Montag><en: Monday>"
            TIME="14.00-19.00h"
            PLACE="Symposium"
            HREF="" >
Life and Work - Scientific Biographies in\nComparative Perspective
</EVENT:SHORT>
Page
http://www.collegium.ethz.ch/guest/former_guests/aant_elzinga.en.html#events

FRONTFRAME

Usage
Content of the front page.
Context
Any.
End-tag
Required. Content of the front page goes in body.
Parameters
add
Picture and link for the the picture that is in front frame.
Example
<FRONTFRAME add="<a href=$(ROOT)/research/narrativity.<de: de><en: en>.html><img border=0
src=$(ROOT)/.pics/narrlogo_b_<en: en><de: de>.gif></a>">
</FRONTFRAME>
Page
http://www.collegium.ethz.ch/

G

Usage
Display a tooltip with the definition of the word in the body of the tag. This tag you can apply only for words defined in DOCUMENT_ROOT/gloss.wml with GDEF.
Context
Any.
End-tag
Required. Content is the word which has a definition.
Parameters
No parameters.
Example
<g>Hochgeschwindigkeitskamera</g>
Page
http://www.ee.ethz.ch/studium/ex/unfall.de.html

GDEF

Usage
Define tooltip for words wich you want to use with tag G.
Context
Any.
End-tag
Required. Content is the description of the word.
Parameters
word *
Word which is defined.
Example
<gdef word="Biomechanik">
Ein Wissenschaftsbereich an der Grenze zwischen Physik und Biologie. Untersucht
belebte Körper und deren Bewegungen auf der Grundlage von mechanischen Gesetzmäs
sigkeiten und bezieht dabei anatomische Erkenntnisse sowie Erkenntnisse über die
Lebensvorgänge von Organismen mit ein.</gdef>
Page
http://www.ee.ethz.ch/studium/ex/unfall.de.html

INFOBOX

Usage
Used for a table at left side of the page, which has a lot of small links for other pages.
Context
Used only in table and with tag INFOSPLIT.
End-tag
Required. Put links in body.
Parameters
title
Title for the box.
Example
<INFOBOX TITLE="<de: Sprungtor><en: Jump Gate>">
<A HREF="http://www.symlink.ch">Sym</A>
</INFOBOX>
Page
http://www.ee.ethz.ch/

INFOSPLIT

Usage
Used for spliting links in INFOBOX.
Context
Used only in table and with tag INFOBOX.
End-tag
Required.
Parameters
No Parameters.
Example
<infosplit>
Page
http://www.ee.ethz.ch/

INSERT

Usage
For paragraf, which is indent.
Context
Any
End-tag
No
Parameters
No parameters.
Example
<insert>
Text
</insert>
Page
http://www.ee.ethz.ch/studium/ex/unfall.de.html

D-ELEK-ADDRESS

Usage
Contact adress for ETH Zurich Departement Informationstechnologie und Elektrotechnik.
Context
Any
End-tag
No
Parameters
No parameters.
Example
<d-elek-address>
Page
http://www.ee.ethz.ch/contact/index.de.wml

HEADER

Usage
Titel of the page.
Context
Any.
End-tag
Required. In body is title.
Parameters
subtitle
Subtitel for the page.
Example
<HEADER SUBTITLE = "<de>des Collegium Helveticum</de><en>of the Collegium Helveticum</en>">
<de>Leitung und MitarbeiterInnen</de>
<en>Staff</en>
</HEADER>
Page
http://www.collegium.ethz.ch/employees/index.en.html

MAILFORM

Usage
To put forms on the site.
Context
Any.
End-tag
Required. In body write additional instructions, if needed.
Parameters
subject *
Subject of the mail.
to *
Email address of recipient.
send *
Text that will be written on the button.
entry
It can be more entries in form: First name, last name, adress...
area
Area for comment.
Example
<mailform subject="Bestellung"
         to="email"
         send="<en: Send Order><de: Bestellung Absenden>">
<mailform:entry><de: Name><en: Name>*</mailform:entry>
<mailform:entry><de: Vorname><en: First name>*</mailform:entry>
<mailform:entry><de: Strasse Nr.><en: Street and Streetnr.>*</mailform:entry>
<mailform:entry><de: PLZ Ort><en: Zip-Code City and State>*</mailform:entry>
<mailform:entry><de: Tel.><en: Phone></mailform:entry>
<mailform:entry><de: e-mail><en: e-mail></mailform:entry>
<mailform:area><de: Kommentar><en: Comments></mailform:area>
<P>
<de>
Die mit * gekennzeichneten Felder bitte nicht leer lassen!
</de>
<en>
Please fill in the marked (*) fields!
</en>
</mailform>
Page
http://www.collegium.ethz.ch/pub/index.en.html

PICTURE

Usage
For presenting pictures.
Context
Any.
End-tag
Required. In body write description of the picture.
Parameters
name *
Name of the product.
src *
Name of the picture.
href
URL for the picture.
align
If not specified than it is right.
Example
 <picture src="unfall-01.jpg"> Will man möglichst sichere Autositze entwickeln, muss man die menschliche Anatomie kennen.
 </picture>
Page
http://www.ee.ethz.ch/studium/ex/unfall.de.html

PROD

Usage
For presenting products and their prices.
Context
Any.
End-tag
Required.
Parameters
href
Link for the product.
src *
Picture for the product.
author
Author of the product.
price
Price of the product.
Example
<PROD NAME="Meridian"
     SRC="meridian-titelblatt.gif"
     AUTHOR=""
     PRICE="0.- CHF">
<de>Newsletter des Collegium Helveticum in der Semper-Sternwarte. Erscheint zweimal jährlich.</de>
<en>Newsletter of Collegium Helveticum. Is published twice a year.</en>
</PROD>
Page
http://www.collegium.ethz.ch/pub/index.en.html

SA

Usage
Simple anchor.
Context
Any.
End-tag
Required. Text in body is link.
Parameters
href
Link for the product-you do not have to specify $(ROOT) at beggining and without extension <en: ><de: >.html at the end of the file: see example.
Example
 <sa href="/ex/unfall">Für mehr Sicherheit sorgen</sa>
Page
http://www.ee.ethz.ch/studium/ex/unfall.de.html

SEMINAR

Usage
Presenting seminars.
Context
Any.
End-tag
Required.
Parameters
date *
Date of the seminar
time *
Time of the seminar
location *
Location of the seminar
registration *
Registration address
Example
<SEMINAR DATE="18.6.2003"
        TIME="10:00-13:00"
        LOCATION="VAW B1, Gloriastrasse 35/37"
        REGISTRATION="<a
        href=mailto:isgee-seminar@ee.ethz.ch><en>registration</en><de>Anmeldung</de></a>
        <en>no later than June 1, 2003</en><de> bis spätestens 1. Juni
        2003</de>"
>
page
http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/events/j2003/talking.en.html

TOPIC

Usage
Topics of the seminar.
Context
Any.
End-tag
Required.
Parameters
title *
Title of the topic
author *
Author name
authorurl *
URL of the author
href *
URL of the title
Example
 <TOPIC TITLE="Ich leite eine Dienstleistungsorganisation. Wie organisiere ich die ISG.EE?"
        AUTHOR="Fritz&nbsp;Zaucker"
        AUTHORURL="http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~zaucker"
        HREF=""
 />
page
http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/events/j2003/talking.en.html
2002-10-13 gs Initial version