Thanks for the reply. I will play around and see if that helps.

For clarification, here's what I have in plan:
1. Cocoon will point to XML file associated with a page to retrieve. There
will be one XSL associated with that XML. Please note that this XML file
only contains the main information.
2. I will have another XML file, to be imported, which will have some header
information. (ie. This XML will have the web developer's e-mail address,
phone which another XSL will translate. This XML file is separate from the
content page.)
3. On the left of each page is a left navigation. This is standard for all
pages and I want to create one template to be imported by all XML pages that
are transformed to HTML. (At first I was thinking of making this a XSL that
does not do anything except contain HTML code.)
4. On the bottom of each page is some text navigation. Again, this is
standard and does not change.


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Beddow [mailto:mbnospam@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: August 1, 2001 8:28 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Can you have a dummy XSL?


Wednesday, August 01, 2001 11:50 AM
Hewko, Doug wrote:

> Can you have a XSL that does not do any text formatting or
> processing? I am working on a web page and want to enforce
> a standard look and feel. Part of  this standard is a generic
> header title, left bar navigation and footer information. Tables
> would be used to maintain this look and feel. The title,
> left bar and footer will contain text, links and icons. These would
> all be standard.

I'm not sure what precisely you're asking (especially the first part)
but just in case it helps here's a skeleton of how I used to do
something like what you may be aiming at, using Cocoon


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