OWML stands for OpenWack Markup Language which may sound scary or funny but in reality it's just HTML/Smarty code with several OpenWack component tags.
{section name="smilies" start="0" loop="5"}<img src="{$_url.img}smile.png" alt="" />{/section} <div class="announce"> We have <b>cool</b> discussion boards here! </div> {component name="ow_forum_latest_topics"}
These tags are defined by installed plugins. Any plugin can have components implementing a piece of plugin functionality and may give you tags to call those components. If you have a forum plugin installed and activated you will have {component name=ow_forum_latest_topics} available.
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