# Generate

This command generates an uncompiled XML source file from a plain text file.

The plain text file must contain a list of headwords that you want to use to create a single entity. You cannot include patterns, synonyms, scoring, and so on in the plain text file.

The generate command creates a headword from each line in the plain text file. It ignores whitespace and blank lines. You can include comment lines (a line beginning with `//`). Edktool skips these comment lines when it generates the XML grammar.

`edktool g -i <inputfile>`

The following table describes the parameters for this command.

`-i <inputfile>` | The plaintext grammar file to process. This file must contain one potential match on each line.
`-e <entity>` | The name of the entity to create (the resulting XML grammar file contains a single entity). If you do not specify a name, the entity is given a default name based on the name of the input file. You can use wildcard expressions in this parameter. See Wildcard Expressions in edktool.
`-o <outputfile>` | The output file name.

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