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Chapter 11:  Managing Templates

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To update all documents in the site that are based on this template, click Update. To not 
update any documents that are based on this template, click Don’t Update.

To delete a template file:

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In the Assets panel (Window > Assets), select the Templates category on the left side of 
the panel.

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Click the name of the template to select it.

3.

Click the Delete button at the bottom of the panel, then confirm that you want to delete 
the template.

Documents that are based on a deleted template are not detached from the template; they 
retain the structure and editable regions that the template file had before it was deleted. 
To turn such a document into a normal HTML file without editable or locked regions, 
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Exporting and importing template XML 
content

You can think of a document based on a template as containing data represented by name/
value pairs. Each pair consists of the name of an editable region, and the contents of that 
region. 

Dreamweaver lets you export the name/value pairs into an XML file so that you can work 
with the data outside of Dreamweaver (for example, in an XML editor or a text editor, or a 
database application). Conversely, if you have an XML document that’s structured 
appropriately, you can import the data from it into a document based on a Dreamweaver 
template. 

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Once you delete a template file, you can’t retrieve it. The template file is deleted from 
your site.