Re: [xsl] Headers 'n Footers 'n XSL

[Arni J Rognvaldsson <arni dot rognvaldsson at circle dot com>]

Hi,

Assuming your XML looks like this:

<doc>
         <foo>
         </foo>
</doc>

Your XSL for individual pages could look something like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version='1.0' xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method="html"/>
<xsl:include href="header_footer.xsl"/>

<xsl:template match="doc">
...
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

And your common header_footer.xsl something like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version='1.0' xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method="html"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
         [header here]
         <xsl:apply-templates select="doc"/>
         [footer here]
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

I'm sure this can be improved on some, but at least it works. The 
interesting part is that from a file perspective, your individual pages 
include the header/footer, but from an XSL perspective you can think of the 
header_footer page including the other pages.

Arni

At 01:08 PM 3/20/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>Howdy,
>
>I was wondering if anybody on this list has ever worked with headers and
>footers and XSL. What I mean is that you have a site or an app that has the
>same header, the same footer but the content differs in the middle. What I'd
>like to do is have xsl for the particular pages that are getting generated
>but call an external source for the header and footer so as to not recreate
>the same html all over again. Makes it easy to update headers and footers
>too.
>
>I did this in the past when the XSL spec was in its infancy but since then
>it doesn't seem like there's an easy way to do this. I was thinking
><xsl:import> or <xsl:include>
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jon
>
>
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