Reply To: Modifying Insert Element Behavior

[Su-Laine Yeo]

Hi,

I haven't been able to reproduce this problem using the default configuration of XMetaL 5.5.

For most Insert Element operations, you can configure what sub-elements are inserted by default. To do this, edit the .CTM file associated with the particular document types. For example, for DITA concept topics the .CTM file is called concept_ditabase.ctm and is located in C:Program FilesXMetaL 5.5AuthorDITAXACsconcept .

The default .CTM file for DITA topic types contains the following code:

[code] [/code]

Using XMetaL Developer to edit CTM files is a bit easier than editing them in a text editor. If you change your concept_ditabase.ctm file to make it look more like the above and then restart XMetaL, the next time you insert a into a DITA concept topic you should get a

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