| <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> | |
| <!--Arbortext, Inc., 1988-2005, v.4002--> | |
| <!DOCTYPE task PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Task//EN" "task.dtd"> | |
| <?Pub Inc?> | |
| <task id="twcdast" xml:lang="en-us"> | |
| <title>Using XML content assist</title> | |
| <titlealts> | |
| <searchtitle>Using XML content assist</searchtitle> | |
| </titlealts> | |
| <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> | |
| <prolog><metadata> | |
| <keywords><indexterm>XML editor<indexterm>content assist</indexterm></indexterm> | |
| <indexterm>XML files<indexterm>content assist</indexterm></indexterm> | |
| </keywords> | |
| </metadata></prolog> | |
| <taskbody> | |
| <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 click <menucascade><uicontrol>Web | |
| and XML</uicontrol><uicontrol>XML Files </uicontrol><uicontrol>XML Source</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> </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 <userinput><</userinput> before | |
| prompting for content assist.</p><p>Scroll down and select the tag that you | |
| want to use by double-clicking on it. </p></context> | |
| </taskbody> | |
| </task> | |
| <?Pub *0000003061?> |