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At the moment, I do not beleive it is possible to use the Explorer to change an XML file to an HTML or a JAVA to a TXT. It would be useful to allow the user to somehow change only the extension of a file, and thus how it is interpreted by NetBeans.
*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 27444 ***