Template listing for datatypes

Let the datatypes return which templates they depend on. This list of templates will be used by the export system to pick related templates more correctly.

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Source file: doc/eng-us/features/3.5/datatype_templatelist.txt
Last changed 11/04/2026
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Address: https://doc.exponential.earth/exphelp/viewer/features/3.5/datatype_templatelist.txt

*Title: Template listing for datatypes

Incentive:
Let the datatypes return which templates they depend on.
This list of templates will be used by the export system
to pick related templates more correctly.

*Documentation:
Add a new method templateList() to eZDataType. This will return
an array with template files to search for either as a filepath
or as a regular expression.
A return value of false means no template relations.

Datatypes that has this implemented:
eZXMLType - Provides ezxmltags relation.

*Testing:

*SVN Revisions:

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