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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="section"><p>To create a new DTD template, complete the following steps:</p>
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<li class="stepexpand"><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">DTD Files</span> &gt; <span class="uicontrol">Templates</span>
</span>.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>Click <span class="uicontrol">New</span> in the templates prefereces.</span>
</li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>Supply a new template <span class="uicontrol">Name</span> and <span class="uicontrol">Description</span>.</span>
</li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>Specify the <span class="uicontrol">Context</span> 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="stepexpand"><span>Specify the <span class="uicontrol">Pattern</span> for your template using
the appropriate tags, attributes, or attribute values to be inserted by content
assist.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><strong>Optional: </strong><span>To insert a variable, click the <span class="uicontrol">Insert
Variable</span> button and select a variable. </span> For example,
the <span class="uicontrol">date</span> variable indicates the current date will be
inserted. </li>
<li class="stepexpand"><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="section">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>
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<div><div class="reltasks"><strong>Related tasks</strong><br />
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