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+<macros>
+    <token name="@CP_VERSION@">3.1.9</token>
+    <token name="@PY_VERSION@">2.7.16</token>
+    <token name="@FORMATS@">jpg,png,tiff,bmp,gif,pcx,ppm,psd,pbm,pgm,eps</token>
+
+    <token name="@SPACES@">"    "</token> <!-- four spaces needed for CP pipeline file -->
+
+    <xml name="output_pipeline_macro">
+        <data name="out_file" from_work_dir="output" format="txt" label="Output pipeline" />
+    </xml>
+
+    <xml name="input_pipeline_macro">
+        <param name="input_pipeline" type="data" format="data" label="Pipeline to select"/>
+    </xml>
+
+    <xml name="cp_requirements">
+        <requirements>
+            <requirement type="package" version="@CP_VERSION@">cellprofiler</requirement>
+        </requirements>
+    </xml>
+
+    <xml name="py_requirements">
+        <requirements>
+            <requirement type="package" version="@PY_VERSION@">python</requirement>
+        </requirements>
+    </xml>
+
+    <xml name="citations">
+        <citations>
+            <citation type="bibtex">
+            @misc{galaxytoolscellprofiler,
+            author = {Sun, Yi},
+            year = {2020},
+            title = {Cellprofiler Galaxy tools},
+            publisher = {Github},
+            journal = {Github repository},
+            url = {https://github.com/bgruening/galaxytools/tools/cellrprofiler},
+            }
+            </citation>
+        </citations>
+    </xml>
+
+    <xml name="cmd_modules">
+        <command detect_errors="aggressive"><![CDATA[
+            python '$script_file' '$inputs' '$input_pipeline'
+        ]]></command>
+    </xml>
+
+    <xml name="text_validator">
+        <validator type="regex" message="Only numbers, letters, hyphen, underscore and spaces are allowed">^[A-Za-z0-9 _-]*$</validator>
+    </xml>
+
+    <xml name="test_input_pipeline_param">
+        <param name="input_pipeline" value="common.txt" />
+    </xml>
+
+    <xml name="test_out_file" token_file="common.txt">
+        <output name="out_file" ftype="txt" file="@FILE@" lines_diff="0"/>
+    </xml>
+    
+    <xml name="help" token_module="common">
+       <help>
+           This tool appends the inputs of the @MODULE@ module to an existing pipeline file (.cppipe)
+
+           Input: existing pipeline file
+
+           Output: new pipeline file
+
+           Combine this tool with "Common" tool and "CellProfiler" tool together to run the current module alone.
+       </help>
+   </xml>
+</macros>
+