Magento sub / extending theme local.xml structure

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I've a Magento store running with a self-made default theme according to the rules from the Magento Designer Guide. So my /default/default/ theme has its own local.xml file.

Now I want to add a new theme /default/extendingtheme/ . Extendingtheme is a theme that has to extend my original theme and has only some slightly differences compared to the default theme. So it would use 95% of the default theme's local.xml .

Unfortunately I have to create a new local.xml file for my 'extendingtheme' duplicating all the content of the default theme, which isn't efficient. Isn't there a way including the 95% of the default local.xml file in my new extendingtheme's local.xml ?

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1 Answers

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Pretty sure it will always take the nearest local.xml it could take. You could create another xml file, like extensiontheme.xml and then include to layout update from your extension config.xml:

<frontend>
<layout>
    <updates>
        <extensiontheme>
            <file>extensiontheme.xml</file>
        </extensiontheme>
    </updates>
</layout>
</frontend>