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| <H1 CLASS="Head"> Content Types</H1> |
| <P CLASS="Para"> The Content Types preference page allows you to edit content |
| types, their associated file names and character sets as well as associate arbitrary |
| file names or file extensions with content types. A content type acts as a description |
| of a certain class of files (for instance, XML files). Eclipse uses this description |
| in various scenarios such as editor look up and file comparing. </P> |
| <P CLASS="Para">To access the Content Types preference page select <strong>Window |
| > Preferences > General > Content Types</strong>. Here is what the Content |
| Types preference page looks like: </P> |
| <P><img src="../images/content_type.png" alt="Content types preference page" > |
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| <p CLASS="Para">By selecting a content type in the topmost tree you can alter |
| the file names and extensions that are associated with it. <strong>Note</strong>: |
| Certain items will be marked as "locked". An item is locked if it is one of |
| the associations provided by the plug-in that declares the content type. In |
| other words, only user-contributed associations may be removed.</P> |
| <p CLASS="Para">Adding an association is as simple as clicking <strong>Add...</strong>. |
| A dialog will be shown prompting you to enter the file name or extension.</P> |
| <p><img src="../images/Image201_filetype.png" alt="New file type dialog" border="0" ></p> |
| <p CLASS="Para">In addition to adding and removing file names or extensions, you |
| may also set the default character set for a given content type. To do this, |
| simply enter the character set name in the provided field and click <strong>Update</strong>. |
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| <p><img src="../images/contenttype-pref-charset.png" alt="Image of character set field" ></p> |
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