What's the deal with “data:post.url”, “data:post.title”, etc

Question

Would someone be so kind as to explain what this data object is (if it is an object) and if there is any documentation on it.

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Answer 1

In the Blogger template data:post.url returns the url of the current page,data:post.title returns the title of the post.These are terminologies are specific to the blogger API and hence these code would work in blogger template and nowhere else.

For example, typing <a expr:href='data:post.url'> in the blogger template,would give the output of <a href="http://urlofthepage">

So if I go to http://meow.blogspot.com/2011/03/ab.html the code which will appear in the source code will be <a href="http://meow.blogspot.com/2011/03/ab.html">

Answer 2

In this case, data: is a namespace that scopes the data available from Blogger that can be included in a template. The authoritative list of what's availabe is here.

It is Blogger-centric.

The other namespaces are b: which deals with layout and control flow, and expr: which keys the engine into the fact that the tags involve data from Blogger (as you have above).

A good tutorial is here.