"PaddyInHR" <pmbarnes@g...> wrote in message 
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> Thank you for your help, Joe. I actually steered you wrong on the
> problem. I *can* get xsl:copy-of to work for XML files. I realized this
> morning that what I really need is to use an external XSL file. Sorry
> about that. A very different issue indeed.
>
> I tried xsl:include and then apply-templates, but it's not producing
> what I want. The problem may be where I'm trying to do that
> apply-templates.
>
> In the main xsl doc (which transforms to ExcelML) I have a Table
> element with a bunch of Row elements. The ExcelML docs that I'm trying
> to output all have the same first 12 or so rows. I'm calling them
> "header rows", and I'd like to extract the XSL for those rows so I can
> reuse them with other main xsl docs. So I'm calling apply-templates
> from the main xsl doc after the Table node and before the rest of the
> Row elements in the main xsl. This isn't working right.
>
> If anything jumps out at you here as the wrong approach, lemme know.
> Otherwise, I'll just keep trying various things.
>
Which XML classes are you using?
Can you show a representative sample of input, output and XSLT?

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Joe Fawcett -  XML MVP

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