Altova UModel 2025 Enterprise Edition

Basic SPL structure

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An SPL file contains literal text to output, interspersed with code generator instructions.

 

Code generator instructions are enclosed in square brackets '[' and ']'. Multiple statements can be included in a bracket pair. Additional statements have to be separated by a new line or a colon ':'.

 

Valid examples are:

 

[$x = 42

$x = $x + 1]

 

or

 

[$x = 42: $x = $x + 1]

 

Adding text to files

Text not enclosed by [ and ], is written directly to the current output file.

 

To output literal square brackets, escape them with a backslash: \[ and \]; to output a backslash use \\.

 

Comments

Comments inside an instruction block always begin with a ' character, and terminate on the next line, or at a block close character ].

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