A master template helps to simplify the management of common elements of the HTML and layout structure. This tutorial outlines how the master XSLT template has been built for this site.
In the Symphony Utilities tutorial, I touched on using a utility as a master template. This tutorial expands on the concept outlined there.
The final template looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:import href="../utilities/main-navigation.xsl"/>
<xsl:output method="xml"
doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"
omit-xml-declaration="yes"
encoding="UTF-8"
indent="yes" />
<xsl:param name="css-path" select="concat($workspace, '/assets/css/')"/>
<xsl:param name="js-path" select="concat($workspace, '/assets/js/')"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<xsl:call-template name="head"/>
<body id="www-designprojectx-com">
<div class="page">
<xsl:call-template name="header"/>
<div class="container mod">
<h2 id="page-heading"><xsl:value-of select="/data/navigation/page[$current-page = @handle]/name"/></h2>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</div>
<xsl:call-template name="footer"/>
</div>
<xsl:call-template name="js"/>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="head">
<xsl:param name="css"/>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title><xsl:value-of select="$page-title"/> | <xsl:value-of select="$website-name"/></title>
<xsl:call-template name="css"/>
</head>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="header">
<xsl:call-template name="branding"/>
<xsl:call-template name="main-navigation"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="branding">
<div id="branding">
<h1><a href="{$root}/"><xsl:value-of select="$website-name"/></a></h1>
</div>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="footer">
<div id="site_info">
<div class="box">
<p><a href="{$root}/"><xsl:value-of select="$website-name"/></a> | The digital sandbox of Stephen Bau </p>
</div>
</div>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{$css-path}reset.css" media="all" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{$css-path}text.css" media="all" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{$css-path}grids.css" media="all" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{$css-path}layout.css" media="all" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{$css-path}nav.css" media="all" />
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="js">
<script type="text/javascript" src="{$js-path}jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="{$js-path}jquery-fluid.js"></script>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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