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| <title>Working with DTD templates</title> | |
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| <searchtitle>Working with DTD templates</searchtitle> | |
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| <shortdesc>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.</shortdesc> | |
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| <keywords><indexterm>DTDs<indexterm>creating templates</indexterm></indexterm> | |
| <indexterm>templates<indexterm>DTD</indexterm></indexterm></keywords> | |
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| <context><p>To create a new DTD template, complete the following steps:</p></context> | |
| <steps> | |
| <step><cmd>Click <menucascade><uicontrol>Window</uicontrol><uicontrol>Preferences</uicontrol> | |
| <uicontrol>Web and XML</uicontrol><uicontrol>DTD Files</uicontrol><uicontrol>Templates</uicontrol> | |
| </menucascade>.</cmd></step> | |
| <step><cmd>Click <uicontrol>New</uicontrol> in the templates prefereces.</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 importance="optional"><cmd>To insert a variable, click the <uicontrol>Insert | |
| Variable</uicontrol> button and select a variable. </cmd><info>For example, | |
| the <uicontrol>date</uicontrol> variable indicates the current date will be | |
| inserted. </info></step> | |
| <step><cmd>Click <uicontrol>Apply</uicontrol> and then <uicontrol>OK</uicontrol> to | |
| save your changes.</cmd></step> | |
| </steps> | |
| <postreq>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, clear its checkbox in the templates table.</p></postreq> | |
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