3. The WML Methodology
- WML makes 9 passes at the input file:
- Source Reading and Include File Expansion (ipp)
- HTML Macro Construct Expansion (mp4h) (Meta-tags, conditionals, etc)
- Perl 5 Programming Construct Expansion (eperl)
- M4 Macro Construct Expansion (gm4)
- Diversion Filter (divert) - diverting text to different locations
- Character and String Substitution (asubst)
- HTML Fix-up (htmlfix)
- Line Stripping and Output Fix-up (htmlstrip)
- Output Splitting and Final Writing (slice)