On the subject of <property> tags. We ran into some limitations with the implementation of the tag on a site we did last summer. The templating documentation says "
The contents of the tag may be plain text, static HTML, or a dynamic template that references local data sources." This is only partially true.
It is possible to have variable replacement take place inside the property, such as:
<property name="title">@title@</property>
But it is not possible to include any other templating tags inside the property. For example:
<property name="breadcrumb">
<list name="breadcrumb">@breadcrumb:item@</list>
</property>
Would cause an error.
Our need was to have a multiple tag inside the property tag, so a compiled chunk of html was passed up to the master.
In the end, we found other ways to make the design work. I did try to unravel the mystery of the templating system to fix this, but was unsuccessful.
If there are other enhancements to be made to the <property> tag, then this fix would be a nice addition.
