The format for the web page provided for the xmlsource paramater to /cgi-bin/links.html is based on XML

• The top level tag is not used (apart to get the initial defaultshow value)
• The names of each tag are not used
• A tag containing items will be used as an expandable section
• A tag containing no items (<tag item="value" /> format counts as this as would <tag item="value"></tag>)
• Paramaters are detailed below

Paramaters

Common paramaters

name

Display this to user

url

URL to link to

icon

Icon to display. Defaults to domain name part of URL plus "/favicon.ico"

Group paramaters

These will be ignored on single items

show="open"

Display group opened out by default (show sub items)

show="close"

Display group closed (hide sub items)

defaultshow="open"

Only valid on root tag. Open tags by default.

defaultshow="close"

Only valid on root tag. Close tags by default (except first level tags)

showchildren

Depreciated Same as show paramater. Behavor will change in the future.

The parser is very forgiving (within the constraints of XML) and unrecognised tags are ignored as are tags in an inappropriate position