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3. XML-Files

WARNING

Even though the data files are in xml and should be easy to understand and modify it is nonetheless possible to corrupt them. If you corrupt workbench.xml or options.xml DataWorkshop may crash on startup. In this case delete them, they will be restored to their default value next time you exit DataWorkshop.

All data in DataWorkshop (e.g options, structures, templates etc.) is saved as xml-tagged text. Some of the xml files are automatically created by the editor (e.g. structures and templates), others can be configured using the editor. But for the power user it might be useful to edit the xml files by hand.
To make the most of the following sections the reader should be familiar with xml. But even if he has no clue about xml he should be able to make some basic changes to the files just by looking at the structure. This is the beauty of xml.


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