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<title>Using XML content assist</title> | |
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<searchtitle>Using XML content assist</searchtitle> | |
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<shortdesc>You can use content assist to help you finish a tag or | |
line of code in the Source view of the XML editor. You can also use | |
content assist to insert templates into your XML code.</shortdesc> | |
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<keywords><indexterm>XML editor<indexterm>content assist</indexterm></indexterm> | |
<indexterm>XML files<indexterm>content assist</indexterm></indexterm> | |
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<context><p>The placement of the cursor in your source file provides | |
the context for the content assist to offer suggestions for completion.</p><p>You | |
can launch content assist in either of the following ways:</p><ul> | |
<li>From the <uicontrol>Edit</uicontrol> menu, click <uicontrol>Content | |
Assist</uicontrol>, or</li> | |
<li>Press Ctrl+Space</li> | |
</ul><p>In addition, you can set up an option that causes content | |
assist to pop up automatically when certain characters are typed. | |
To set up this option, click <menucascade><uicontrol>Window</uicontrol> | |
<uicontrol> Preferences</uicontrol></menucascade> to open the Preferences | |
window, then select <menucascade><uicontrol>XML</uicontrol><uicontrol>XML | |
Files </uicontrol><uicontrol>Editor</uicontrol><uicontrol>Content | |
assist</uicontrol></menucascade> . Select the <uicontrol>Automatically | |
make suggestions</uicontrol> check box, and supply any additional | |
characters that should trigger content assist.</p><p>If your cursor | |
is in a position where content assist is available, a pop-up list | |
of available choices is displayed when you launch content assist. | |
The list is based on the context and whether a DTD or XML schema is | |
associated with the XML file being edited. For example, if you have | |
an Address element that can contain any of the following children | |
elements: Name, Street, City, Zip Code, Country, and Province, and | |
you place your cursor after any of them and launch content assist, | |
all of the child elements will be listed in the content assist list.</p><p>Content | |
assist cycling is available in the XML editor, offering multiple pages | |
of content assist. You can set preferences for the proposal categories | |
and the cycle order when repeatedly invoking content assist </p><?Pub | |
Caret 53?><p>The content assist list displays all valid tags for the | |
current cursor position, including templates. If your grammar constraints | |
are turned off, all available tags, not just valid ones, are displayed. </p><p>As | |
you type the first one or two letters of the tag that you want, the | |
list automatically refreshes with alphabetized choices that match | |
your input. Scroll down and select the tag that you want to use by | |
double-clicking on it.</p><note>The list only refreshes as described | |
if you first type <userinput><</userinput> before prompting for | |
content assist.</note></context> | |
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