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<h2>Getting started</h2>
<p>Metadata Editor is a tool for creating and editing metadata for Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). The properties that can be edited include libraries, release, attributes and extended SDK information.</p>
<p>Metadata are contained in files named as <i><apiname>.metaxml</i>. For example, the filename for <i>phone_parser_api</i> would be <i>phone_parser_api.metaxml</i>.</p>
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<li>Before you can edit metadata files, you need to have a project for them in the Carbide.c++ environment. To do this, either:
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<li><a href="../tasks/create_new_project.htm">Create a new project</a>.</li>
<li><a href="../tasks/import_project.htm">Import an existing project</a>.</li>
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<li>To work with the files, do either of the following:
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<li>If your project does not contain any <i>.metaxml</i> files,
<a href="../tasks/create_metadata.htm">create a new metadata file</a>.</li>
<li>If your project already contains a <i>.metaxml</i> file, open it by double-clicking
in the Carbide.c++ Project Explorer, or right-click the name and select
<b>Open/Open with > Metadata Editor</b>.</li>
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<li>You can then <a href="../tasks/edit_metadata.htm">edit the metadata files </a> by changing, for example, libraries, release, attributes and extended SDK values. Metadata Editor automatically validates the structure of the XML when you save the file.
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<li>Note: If you have files in the 1.0 version of the API metadata, you can
also <a href="../tasks/converting_metadata.htm">convert the metadata files </a> to version 2.0. </li>
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