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Home > Online Product Documentation > Table of Contents > Creating Templates Creating TemplatesTo do anything beyond copying the text from your XML document to the result document, you must create templates. You can create new templates several ways:
Try creating a new template that matches an XML element in your document:
1. Double-click an element in the tree view of your XML document.
2. Enter the following instruction in the new template:
3. In another template, ensure that there is an
xsl:apply-templates instruction that selects the new template's element for processing.
4. Press F5 to apply the stylesheet and refresh the current scenario in the
Preview window.
Notice that the text contents of the element for which you created the template are now displayed in bold - the XSL instruction is formatted with
By creating additional templates to style portions of your XML document, you can completely control how the document appears. Saving a Template
To save a template, save the stylesheet. Click
Save
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. Stylus Studio creates an empty template whose match pattern is
NewTemplate. Replace
NewTemplate with a match pattern that has meaning for your stylesheet. The new template appears at the end of the stylesheet.
in the Stylus Studio tool bar, or select
File
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Save from the Stylus Studio menu bar.
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