Ignoring an Attribute

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To ignore an attribute, use the built-in command <IGNORE> in a syntax like the following:

<IGNORE>
<tag>tagName</tag>
<path>pathOfTheTag</path>
<value>tagValue</value>
</IGNORE>

In the preceding syntax, the following line is optional:

<path>pathOfTheTag</path>

In the preceding syntax, you can use an asterisk (*) as a wildcard in the following line:

<value>tagValue</value>

To continue the example (Class SubTypeOfWTPart, which extends wt.part.WTPart, with one additional attribute mySubTypeAttr1), tagName is mySubTypeAttr1 and tagValue is * (the wildcard). This ignores all mySubTypeAttr1 with any value.

If there is another object type with an attribute with the same name as mySubTypeAttr1, and this type is not to be ignored, you can include the type by specifying the <path>pathOfTheTag</path>. For example, <path> SubTypeOfWTPart</path>, which means the mySubTypeAttr1 is ignored only if it is a tag under SubTypeOfWTPart.