Re: Limitations of Includes in XSL

What I've been trying to do is a trick I've used as a web developer -- the
metaphorical equivilant of server side includes in the XSL file. Rather
than cut and paste a filing and disposition control table like this

(Warning -- long code block that probably doesn't have enough space for its
indents...)

from XSL file to XSL file.  Obviously, much was elided from the sample
above, but the table is easily 60 lines of code, that's replicated through
90% of what I'm working on.

I'd prefer to put it as a separate file, and call it as such:

<xsl:include href="filingAndDispo.xsl">

I'm running into two problems:

1) The XML parser (FOP) says that I cannot use an include inside of a
template.  I'm trying to see if I can summon the include outside the
template and call the results from within it, but I confess to floundering
a lot.

2) The other issue I'm running into is passing the appropriate root
document to the XSL widget that's called by the include.

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