RE: How to reuse header and footer templates while changing page template in the middle?

["Xu, Xiaocun" <XXu at commercialware dot com>]

I finally figured out how to do it without using variables.

Much thanks to all who responded :)

Xiaocun Xu
mailto:xxu@commercialware.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xu, Xiaocun 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 9:40 AM
> To: 'xsl-list@mulberrytech.com'
> Subject: How to reuse header and footer templates while changing page
> template in the middle?
> Importance: High
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 	Thanks for everyone who helped :)
> 	Taking in all the suggestions, I decided to break the 
> XML into 3 parts: <header>, <footer> and <page> in the 
> following hierarchy:
> 		<header> Header </header>
> 		<footer> Footer </footer>
> 		<page> Page 1 </page>
> 		<page> Page 2 </page>
> 		etc......
> 	Hence my XSL will be devided into 3 templates: header, 
> footer and page.  Each <page> will be page breaked with:
> 		<div style="page-break-before: always" />
> The XSL I am building should have following structure:
> 		<xsl:apply-templates select="header"/> Header here
> 		<xsl:apply-templates select="page"/> Page 1 here
> 		<xsl:apply-templates select="footer"/> Footer here
> 		<xsl:apply-templates select="header"/> Header here
> 		<xsl:apply-templates select="page"/> Page 2 here
> 		<xsl:apply-templates select="footer"/> Footer here
> 		etc......
> then repeat the above structure for each <page> element I encounter.
> 	How can I reuse the header and footer templates while 
> changing the page template in the middle?  <xsl:for-each 
> select="page"> doesn't work in this case because <header> and 
> <footer> elements are outside of <page> element.  I think the 
> only way is to use global variable to contain the formatted 
> <header> and <footer>, how can I do that?
> 
> Much thanks,
> 
> Xiaocun Xu
> mailto:xxu@commercialware.com
> 


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