In this post I will be explaining the basic terminolagies, technical jargons and syntax of the XML blogger template. Why should I read this and understand?
- If you want to know or curious about the blogger xml template ;-)
- If you want to design or create your own blogger template
- If you want to tweak your existing blogger template
Pre-requisites to understand this topic: Here I assume that the reader is having the following skills or knowledge
- Basics of XHTML
- Little bit of CSS
- Little knowledge about XML
Ok. Let us start our journey to understand the xml blogger template. We call the blogger template as XML blogger template because the entire template code is XML standard. I am referring to the ' minima' template, but most of the code will be same and will be applicable for any blogger template.
The blogger template will be parsed by blogger engine while rendering the pages and produces the XHTML output.
- <b:include name="'all-head-content'/" data="'blog'">- This appears next to <head> tag. This code, when parsed by blogger engine, will output all the META tags and LINK tags which provides information about the referral urls about RSS and ATOM feeds. The possible output will be as shown below: