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<h1 class="topictitle1">Working with XML templates</h1>
<div><p>XML content assist provides a comment template, a chunk of predefined
code that you can insert into a file. You can use the default template as
provided, customize that template, or create your own templates.</p><div class="skipspace">For example, you may 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 Pattern 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>To create a new XML template follow these steps:</p>
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<ol><li class="skipspace"><span>Click <span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">Window</span> &gt; <span class="uicontrol">Preferences</span> &gt; <span class="uicontrol">Web and XML</span> &gt; <span class="uicontrol">XML Files</span> &gt; <span class="uicontrol">XML
Templates</span></span>.</span></li>
<li class="skipspace"><span>Click <span class="uicontrol">New</span> if you want to create a completely
new template.</span></li>
<li class="skipspace"><span>Supply a new template name and description</span></li>
<li class="skipspace"><span>Specify the <span class="uicontrol">Context</span> for the template.</span> This is the content in which the template is available in the proposal
list when content assist is requested. </li>
<li class="skipspace"><span>Specify the <span class="uicontrol">Pattern</span> for your template using
the appropriate tags, attributes, or attribute values to be inserted by contente
assit.</span></li>
<li class="skipspace"><span>If you want to insert a variable, click the <span class="uicontrol">Variable</span> button
and select the variable to be inserted. </span>  For example, the word_selection
variable indicates the word that is selected at the beginning of template
insertion, and the cursor variable determines where the cursor will be after
the template is inserted in the HTML document</li>
<li class="skipspace"><span>Click <span class="uicontrol">Apply</span> and then <span class="uicontrol">OK</span> to
save your changes.</span></li>
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<div class="skipspace">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 the template to appear
in the content assist list, go to the Templates preferences page and templates
its check box.</p>
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