As it is well known fact that XMLPublisher stores the metadata and physical files for templates and data definitions in BLOB columns in its schema. During Development you need to download information from a development instance to a test instance before porting over to production environment.These steps you normally follow:

• Use the FNDLOAD utility to upload and download the data definition information and the template metadata stored in the Template Manager.
• Use the XDOLoader utility to upload and download the physical files (RTF, PDF, XSL-FO, XML, and XSD).

Using FNDLOAD to Manage Metadata

As per user guide,both templates and data definitions are stored in the database, therefore we can use the FNDLOAD loader to download the metadata for these objects and then to upload this metadata to another instance. The FNDLOAD program requires a control file (lct) as discussed earlier that XML Publisher provides for use with its objects. The file which is used called xdotmpl.lct and it is located under your APPL_TOP directory as follows:

XDO_TOP/patch/115/import/xdotmpl.lct

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