I looked into the Blogger template syntax, wondering if I could make a simple template on my own, using Bootstrap or something like that. Google, it turns out, has little documentation. They have a few docs in their support section, but nothing like developer documentation. This one, for example, covers two tags: b:section and b:widget. I can see others in the template: b:loop, b:if, b:else. I can make a good guess about what these do, but I shouldn't have to.
The template is a standard XML document with some blogger-specific tags. Seem like a good system. But what tags are available? What do they mean? Normally, the XML declaration has a source for such questions. Here's the tag from my current template.
<html b:version='2' class='v2' expr:dir='data:blog.languageDirection' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xmlns:b='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/b' xmlns:data='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/data' xmlns:expr='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr'>
Guess what? All those links are broken. So maybe I won't put any more time into this after all. It hardly inspires confidence. I remember what happened with the last Google product I really liked. It's a shame, because I like Blogger. It's one case where my interests align pretty well with Google's.
