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# FileResource

The basic resource to serve files. This resource allows you to export files.

## Inerits

The FileResource class inerits from the following classes:

- Resource
- FramedResource

## Attributes description

The FileResource defines the following attributes:

- filename
- backup

`filename`

semantics
  The optional name of the file to be served by the file resource. By default, the file resource will serve the file's having the resource's name. You can define this attribute in order to change the URL to file mapping. E.g. you can serve the file foo.html through the name oof.html, by setting the foo.html filename attribute to off.html.
type
  This attribute is an editable FilenameAttribute
default value
  This attribute defaults to null.

`backup`

semantics
  Should this resource create a backup file if the file content change (with the newContent method).
type
  This attribute is an editable BooleanAttribute
default value
  This attribute defaults to false.

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$Id: org.w3c.tools.resources.FileResource.html,v 1.3 1998/03/27 08:25:25 bmahe Exp $