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Global Tag Attributes

The attributes described in Table B.10 can be applied to any of Movable Type's variable tags, and they mostly control how the values they insert are formatted.

Table B.10. Global Tag Attributes

Attribute	Description
decode_html	Set to 1, this attribute reverses the encoding performed by encode_html. Character entities are converted into the raw characters they represent.
decode_xml	Set to 1, this attribute reverses the encoding performed by encode_xml. Character entities are converted into the raw characters they represent.
dirify	Set to 1, this attribute causes the value of the tag to be made safe for use in a file path. Specifically: The value is converted to lowercase. Any HTML tags or entities are stripped. Some high-ASCII characters, ...