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<h1 class="topictitle1">Working with DTD templates</h1>
<div><p>Templates are a chunk of predefined code that you can insert into a DTD
file when it is created. 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.</p>
<div class="skipspace"><p>To create a new DTD template follow these steps:</p>
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<ol><li class="skipspace"><span>Click <b> <span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">Window</span> &gt; <span class="uicontrol">Preferences</span> &gt; <span class="uicontrol">Web and XML</span> &gt; </span>
<span class="uicontrol">DTD</span><span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol"> Files</span> &gt; </span>
<span class="uicontrol">DTD</span><span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">
Templates</span></span></b>.</span></li>
<li class="skipspace"><span>Click <b> <span class="uicontrol">New</span></b> if you want to create a completely
new template.</span></li>
<li class="skipspace"><span>Supply a new template <b>Name</b> and <b>Description</b>.</span></li>
<li class="skipspace"><span>Specify the <b> <span class="uicontrol">Context</span></b> for the template.</span> This is the context in which the template is available in the proposal
list when content assist is requested. </li>
<li class="skipspace"><span>Specify the <b> <span class="uicontrol">Pattern</span></b> for your template using
the appropriate tags, attributes, or attribute values to be inserted by content
assist.</span></li>
<li class="skipspace"><span>If you want to insert a variable in your <b>Pattern</b>, click the
<b> <span class="uicontrol">Insert Variable</span></b> button
and select the variable to be inserted. </span> For example, the<b> date </b>variable indicates
the current date will be inserted. </li>
<li class="skipspace"><span>Click <b> <span class="uicontrol">Apply</span></b> and then
<b> <span class="uicontrol">OK</span></b> 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. <p>If you have a template
that you do not want to remove, but you no longer want the template to appear
in the DTD templates list when you create a file, go to the <b>DTD Templates </b>preferences page and
clear
its check box.</p>
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<div><div class="reltasks"><strong>Related tasks</strong><br>
<a href="tcretdtd.html">Creating a DTD file</a><br />
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