Opening existing items
You can open existing Content Manager items from a WebDAV-compliant interface simply by accessing the Open functionality in your Windows application (typically accessible from your application File menu).
Before you begin
You may experience problems browsing for, and opening, items with a name that contains special characters. These problems are due to variations in the way that different windows platforms and applications handle these characters. When naming Publications, Folders or items that will be accessed from a client application using WebDAV, ensure that the following reserved characters are not part of the name:
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About this task
Filenames of path names may cause errors when you open an item from, or save an item to, the Content Manager. If this happens, use the drag-and-drop feature to save the item to, and open the item from, you client machine. Edit the item on your machine and then drag-and-drop the file back to the Content Manager using Windows Explorer.
The following task describes accessing Content Manager items through Windows Explorer and from Altova® XML Spy®.