Valid XHTML - the layout tags

A problem with the layout tags are that some of the scalars (attributes or functions) that produces URL's and some of these af not valid XHTML because of the Ampersands (&'s) in URLs, an example is in the BlogArchive widget:

<a class='post-count-link' expr:href='data:i.url'>
   <data:i.name />
</a>

which produces URL's like

http://blog.sweetxml.org/search?updated-min=2007-01-01T00%3A00%3A00%2B01%3A00&updated-max=2008-01-01T00%3A00%3A00%2B01%3A00&max-results=12

URL: http://blog.sweetxml.org/
PATH: /search PARAMTER:

• updated-min=2007-01-01T00%3A00%3A00%2B01%3A00
• updated-max=2008-01-01T00%3A00%3A00%2B01%3A00
• max-results=12

the variable i comes from this loop:

<b:loop values='data:intervalData' var='i'>

so the intervalData is of a collection or array type. This loop is part of an includable template component where the intervalData is defined:

<b:includable id='interval' var='intervalData'>

described in Widget Tags for Layouts. This is included when using HIERARCHY for blog archive

<b:if cond='data:style == "HIERARCHY"'>
   <b:include data='data' name='interval' />
</b:if>

so the variable data (used as intervalData) is transfered to the includable template component. This finally is part of the widget of type BlogArchive

<b:widget id='BlogArchive1'
          locked='false'
          title='Blog Archive'
          type='BlogArchive'>

So the data (confusing enough not prefixed) must be globally available in this widget. In the Layouts Data Tags has a description of the data available to the Blog Archive:

The different styles provided here are for the different default options on the Page Elements tab. If you're designing a new version, it's easiest to use 'FLAT' as the style, and then manipulate the rest of the data as desired.

• title: The title of the widget.
• style: One of 'MENU', 'FLAT', or 'HIERARCHY'.
• data: A list of each archive unit, each of which contains:
  • name: The name of this archive interval, e.g. "August 2006."
  • url: The link to the page containing posts from this interval.
  • post-count: How many posts there are in this interval.

I hope it's possible to access the start og end date (year or month).
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