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cleccese1-Visitor
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July 3, 2013
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Savetext construction rule and usetext source syntax

  • July 3, 2013
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I was looking for a list of built-in syntax commands like #CONTENT, but I could not find anything, probably because I don't know what they're called. I remember reading a post where Clay mentioned some of these useful tags which I hadn't heard before and I can't find that either.



Such as:



#CONTENT


#LT#


#GT#


#EQ#


#LE#


#GE#


#NE#


#ANY


#NONE


#XPATHCONTENT


#XPATHSTRING



@ to reference attributes



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    ClayHelberg18-Opal
    18-Opal
    July 3, 2013
    Hi Caroline--

    Try searching the Help Center for "savetext construction rule", that should bring you to a topic where many of these items are listed.

    --Clay
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    naglists1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    July 3, 2013
    #CONTENT(attributename)

    for the value stored in attribute named attributename.


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    ptc-19080751-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    July 3, 2013
    I have added the relevant chapter, "Rules of the Road," to my website at


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    LynnHales1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    July 4, 2013
    Caroline,



    I know there have been a couple of other responses to this, all of them very
    good ones. However if you want to go to the 'source', there are a couple of
    ways you can do this.



    First open Epic and go to the 'tutorials' folder and click on 28001C and
    then open the 28001C.sgm file. Epic will most likely ask you to 'compile the
    DTD' as this is an SGML file. Once it opens, you'll have the Arbortext
    annotated version of the MIL SPEC that the savetext rules came from.

    If you are a REAL glutton for punishment, got to
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    cleccese1-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    July 4, 2013

    Thank you everyone! So helpful!


    Lynn, when I went to http://quicksearch.dla.mil/ I got a Network error. I will look at the 28001C.sgm file tomorrow.



    In Reply to Lynn Hales:


    Caroline,



    I know there have been a couple of other responses to this, all of them very
    good ones. However if you want to go to the 'source', there are a couple of
    ways you can do this.



    First open Epic and go to the 'tutorials' folder and click on 28001C and
    then open the 28001C.sgm file. Epic will most likely ask you to 'compile the
    DTD' as this is an SGML file. Once it opens, you'll have the Arbortext
    annotated version of the MIL SPEC that the savetext rules came from.

    If you are a REAL glutton for punishment, got to http://quicksearch.dla.mil/
    and enter 28001 in the document number search box. Then click on
    MIL-PRF-28001C. This is the unadulterated (in appendix B) that the Epic help
    tends to fall back on. When I put this response together, the DLA site
    appeared to be down for some reason or another (as it was midnight UTC, most
    likely maintenance).



    Lynn


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    ebenton1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    July 8, 2013
    As has been mentioned before, I have found the old versions of Arbortext Editor Help (5.x) to be much more searchable and user-friendly than the 6.0 Help. You should try installing an older version of help, it makes it way easier to find answers.
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