In blojsom, you can specify a certain template to be loaded for a particular flavor. This may be useful for presenting information relevant in a particular context.

For example, the default installation uses a different template for the HTML flavor when presenting comments and trackbacks left for a particular blog entry. You will notice that if you click on the link for the number of comments or trackbacks, that a URL parameter page= is added to the URL for a given entry. Depending on the name given in the URL parameter, blojsom will load the page-specific template.

The page-specific template loading uses the following lookup procedure.

1. If the page URL parameter is specified, blojsom will look for:

   flavor_template-page.flavor_extension

2. If the page URL parameter is not specified, or the flavor_template-page.flavor_extension file is not found, blojsom will look for:

   flavor_template.flavor_extension

About the example blojsom's default flavor is HTML and is presumed if not given in the following examples. Assume blojsom's default to use Velocity templates in the following examples. The main template file for the HTML flavor is html.vm.

• blojsom will look for html-comments.vm in the user's templates directory.

  http://your.blog.com/blojsom/blog/default/?permalink=some_entry.txt&page=comments

• blojsom will look for html-trackback.vm in the user's templates directory.

  http://your.blog.com/blojsom/blog/default/?permalink=some_entry.txt&page=trackback

• blojsom will look for rss2-comments.vm in the user's templates directory.

  http://your.blog.com/blojsom/blog/default/?permalink=some_entry.txt&flavor=rss2&page=comments