This manual will use the {pad} tag for general PAD features.

Below the internal PHP code for the {pad} tag. That is not so much ))

<?php

  return TRUE;

?>

As the {pad} tag does not do anything itself, it must be given content & data.
(if there is no data assigned to it then it will have default 1 data occurence)

HTML RESULT 
{pad $myColor='red'}
  <b> <font color="{$myColor}"> Hallo Wereld </font> </b> <br>
{/pad}
 Hallo Wereld

Below example gives a sneak preview of The content tag and The data tag, 2 powerfull PAD tags.

HTML RESULT 
{data 'myData'}
  ( "red", "green", "blue" ) 
{/data}
{content 'myContent'}
  <b> <font color="{$myData}"> Hello World </font> </b> <br>
{/content}
{pad data='myData', content='myContent'}
 Hello World
Hello World
Hello World

In the _data directory of the _common application there is the file staff.xml, it is often used in this manual. 

<xml>
  <row name="joe"   salary="1000" bonus="500" phone="555-1111" />
  <row name="jim"   salary="2000" bonus="400" phone="555-2222" />
  <row name="john"  salary="3000" bonus="300" phone="555-3333" />
  <row name="jack"  salary="4000" bonus="200" phone="555-4444" />
  <row name="jerry" salary="5000" bonus="100" phone="555-5555" />
</xml>

Files placed in the _data directory can be used as a PAD tag. 

<table border=1>
  {staff}
    <tr>
      <td> {$name} </td>
      <td> {$phone} </td>
    </tr>
  {/staff}
</table>
joe 555-1111
jim 555-2222
john 555-3333
jack 555-4444
jerry 555-5555