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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></keywords> | |
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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></menucascade> . | |
| In the <uicontrol>Content assist</uicontrol> group box, 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>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.<?Pub Caret?></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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