[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Use an XML Template when creating a New XML

[Daniel Megert <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ronan Mulvaney wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Would really appreciate some help here in case I'm way off track.
>
> What I am trying to do is define an XML template and when I create a 
> new file, that this template gets used in the creation.
>
> I have my org.eclipse.ui.editors.templates extension and this seems 
> fine and shows up in the WST XML Template store.
> What I am trying to figure out now is how this should get used when I 
> create the file from my New File Wizard.

Can't speak for XML and have no clue which wizard you're using but 
normally the templates contributed via the mentioned extension are 
editor templates used when typing and not code templates used for code 
generation.

Dani

> I can query and get the template, etc but I'm a bit confused then as 
> to how to go about doing the replace of some of the TemplateVariables, 
> well mainly if I was heading in the right direction, etc..
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Ronan