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| <title>Working with XML templates</title> | |
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| <searchtitle>Working with XML templates</searchtitle> | |
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| <shortdesc>XML content assist provides a comment template, a chunk of predefined | |
| code that you can insert into a file. 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>XML templates<indexterm>working with predefined code</indexterm></indexterm> | |
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| <context><p>You can use a default template as provided, customize that template, | |
| or create your own templates.</p>For example, you can work on a group of XML | |
| pages that should all contain a table with a specific appearance. Create a | |
| template that contains the tags for that table, including the appropriate | |
| attributes and attribute values for each tag. (You can copy and paste the | |
| tags from a structured text editor into the template's <uicontrol>Pattern</uicontrol> field.) | |
| Then select the name of the template from a content assist proposal list whenever | |
| you want to insert your custom table into an XML file.<p>To create a new XML | |
| template follow these steps:</p></context> | |
| <steps> | |
| <step><cmd>Click <menucascade><uicontrol>Window</uicontrol><uicontrol>Preferences</uicontrol> | |
| <uicontrol>Web and XML</uicontrol><uicontrol>XML Files</uicontrol><uicontrol>XML | |
| Templates</uicontrol></menucascade>.</cmd></step> | |
| <step><cmd>Click <uicontrol>New</uicontrol> if you want to create a completely | |
| new template.</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><cmd>If you want to insert a variable, click the <uicontrol>Insert Variable</uicontrol> button | |
| and select the variable to be inserted. </cmd><info>For example, the <b>date</b> 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. If you have modified a default template, you can restore | |
| it to its default value. You can also restore a removed template if you have | |
| not exited from the workbench since it was removed. <p>If you have a template | |
| that you do not want to remove but you no longer want it to appear in the | |
| content assist list, go to the <b>XML Templates</b> preferences page and clear | |
| its check box.</p></postreq> | |
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