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<title>Working with XML templates</title> | |
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<searchtitle>Working with XML templates</searchtitle> | |
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<shortdesc>XML content assist provides a comment template, a section of predefined | |
code that you can insert into a file. You may find a template useful when | |
you have a certain piece of code you want to reuse several times, and you | |
do not want to write it out every time.</shortdesc> | |
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<context><p>You can use a default template as provided, customize that template, | |
or create your own templates.</p><p>For example, you can work on a group of | |
XML pages that should all contain a table with a specific appearance. Create | |
a template that contains the tags for that table, including the appropriate | |
attributes and attribute values for each tag. (You can copy and paste the | |
tags from a structured text editor into the template's <uicontrol>Pattern</uicontrol> field.) | |
Then select the name of the template from a content assist proposal list whenever | |
you want to insert your custom table into an XML file.</p><p>To create a new | |
XML template, complete the following steps:</p></context> | |
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<step><cmd>Click <menucascade><uicontrol>Window</uicontrol><uicontrol>Preferences</uicontrol> | |
</menucascade> and select <menucascade><uicontrol>XML</uicontrol><uicontrol>XML | |
Files</uicontrol><uicontrol>Templates</uicontrol></menucascade>.</cmd></step> | |
<step><cmd>Click <uicontrol>New</uicontrol> if you want to create a completely | |
new template.</cmd></step> | |
<step><cmd>Supply a new template <uicontrol>Name</uicontrol> and <uicontrol>Description</uicontrol>.</cmd> | |
</step> | |
<step><cmd>Specify the <uicontrol>Context</uicontrol> for the template.</cmd> | |
<info>This is the context in which the template is available in the proposal | |
list when content assist is requested. </info></step> | |
<step><cmd>Specify the <uicontrol>Pattern</uicontrol> for your template using | |
the appropriate tags, attributes, or attribute values to be inserted by content | |
assist.</cmd></step> | |
<step><cmd>If you want to insert a variable, click the <uicontrol>Insert Variable</uicontrol> button | |
and select the variable to be inserted. </cmd><info>For example, the <b>date</b> variable | |
indicates the current date will be inserted. </info></step> | |
<step><cmd>Click <uicontrol>OK</uicontrol> and then <uicontrol>Apply</uicontrol> to | |
save your changes.</cmd></step> | |
</steps> | |
<postreq>You can edit, remove, import, or export a template by using the same | |
preferences page. If you have modified a default template, you can restore | |
it to its default value. You can also restore a removed template if you have | |
not exited from the workbench since it was removed. <p>If you have a template | |
that you do not want to remove but you no longer want it to appear in the | |
content assist list, clear its check box in the table on the Templates preferences | |
page.</p></postreq> | |
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