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| <h1 class="topictitle1">Using XML content assist</h1> |
| <div><p>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 macros into your XML code. The placement of the cursor in your source |
| file provides the context for the content assist to offer suggestions for |
| completion.</p><div class="skipspace"><p>You can launch content assist in any of the following ways:</p> |
| <ul><li>From the <b> <span class="uicontrol">Edit</span></b> menu, click <b> <span class="uicontrol">Content Assist</span>,</b> |
| or</li> |
| <li>Press <b>Ctrl+Space</b></li> |
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| <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 <b> <span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">Window</span> > <span class="uicontrol"> Preferences</span></span></b> to open the Preferences window, then click |
| <b> <span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">Web |
| and XML</span> > <span class="uicontrol">XML Files </span> > <span class="uicontrol">XML Source</span></span></b>. In the |
| <b> <span class="uicontrol">Content assist</span> </b>group box, select |
| the <b> <span class="uicontrol">Automatically make suggestions</span></b> 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>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> </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.</p> |
| <p><b>Note</b>: |
| The list only refreshes as described if you first type <kbd class="userinput"><</kbd> before |
| prompting for content assist.</p> |
| <p>Scroll down and select the tag that you |
| want to use by double-clicking on it. </p> |
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| <div><div class="reltasks"><strong>Related tasks</strong><br /> |
| <div><a href="../topics/txedtsrc.html" title="You can use the Source view to view and work with a file's source code directly.">Editing in the Source view</a></div> |
| <div><a href="../topics/twmacro.html" title="XML content assist provides a comment template, a chunk 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.">Working with XML templates</a></div> |
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