After a quick test with my mobile phone, I've sucessfully created a simple xml template that posts the newest article in the blog which is readable by mobile devices.
So now I can moblog both ways - letting the world read my latest blog and blog from my phone.
As a starting point in this exercise, I'm only going to have the last entry used as my wap page, mainly due to the complexities of creating a simple and reliable navigation system using WML (Wireless Meta Language). I have some thoughts on this, and will experiment later.
For the test, I created the following template:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml"><wml>
<MTEntries><card id="a<$MTEntryID pad="1"$>" title="<$MTEntryTitle$>">
<p><$MTEntryExcerpt$></p>
</card>
</MTEntries>
</wml>
By default, every entry uses the first 40 words to create an excerpt - you can change this in options - the reason I'm using excerpt is if a blog entry gets too big, I'm not sure how a mobile device will handle it, so I'm playing safe for the test.
And that was effectively it for the test - I rebuilt the page and pointed my phone to the correct url, and there was my excerpt!
For my next test, I will get a few consecutive posts to link to each other in their respective category.
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