nested templates?

hi all,

is it possible to construct an xslt stylesheet that is more similar to a
"complete" page, i.e. with nested templates:

(btw, this is not syntactically complete, but you get the idea :)

<xsl:stylesheet>

<!-- template -->
<xsl:template match="/*">
    <!-- top level -->
    <div align="center">

    <!-- folder -->
    <xsl:template match="folder">
    <a href="/"><xsl:value-of select="@name"/></a><br />
        <!-- item -->
        <xsl:template match="folder/*">
        <a class="subnav">
        <xsl:attribute name="href">
            <xsl:value-of select="href" />
        </xsl:attribute>
        <xsl:value-of select="href" />
        </a><br />
        </xsl:template>
        <xsl:apply-templates/>
        <!-- /item -->
    <p/>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
    <!-- /folder -->

    </div>
    <!-- /top level -->
</xsl:template>
<!-- template -->

</xsl:stylesheet>


The above seems to be illegal, though I can't think of a good reason why.

The idea here is for me to be able to continue building template files, etc
the way I am used to doing it (and, indeed, the way I think it should be
done).

I'm finding the "template for every element in a list" thing fairly
annoying, and I want a good way of getting around it.

---

A related question:
    -Can I import another xsl at runtime to handle a template operation for
me? Say I have an element <field> that I want to transform into an html
<input type="foo"> tag, and I'd like to select that element (<field>) and
pass it off to another template. I suppose I could write a php-helper to do
this, but that seems kludgey to me.

tia, all!


_alex



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