JSF/PrimeFaces - Template with <p:layout>

I need to create a layout like this but with all the containers on separated files, like:

top.xhtml

<p:layout fullPage="true">
        <p:layoutUnit position="north" header="#{support.applicationTitle}">
            <h:form>
                <p:menubar>
                    <p:menuitem value="Quit" icon="ui-icon-close" action="#{userController.logOut()}" />
                </p:menubar>
            </h:form>
        </p:layoutUnit>

Without the </p:layout> because it will be close on my footer.xhtml like:

<p:layoutUnit position="south" header="© 2012 - 2012 PORTAL DE IDEIAS">
</p:layoutUnit></p:layout>

I have tried with both files but I get a error telling me that I need to close the layout tag, what is correct, but how can I solve my problem? Is this the best approach for a template? And another problem is that the layout tag require a center layoutUnit

This is indeed not the right approach. Your template has to be XML well formed. I suggest to create a master template file instead if all you want is to only specify the center unit.

Taking the example on the showcase site, that should look like this:

/WEB-INF/templates/layout.xhtml

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en"
     xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
     xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
     xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
     xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
     xmlns:p="http://primefaces.org/ui"
>
    <h:head>
        <title>Title</title>
    </h:head>
    <h:body>
        <p:layout fullPage="true">
            <p:layoutUnit position="north" size="100" header="Top" resizable="true" closable="true" collapsible="true">
                <h:outputText value="Top unit content." />
            </p:layoutUnit>

            <p:layoutUnit position="south" size="100" header="Bottom" resizable="true" closable="true" collapsible="true">
                <h:outputText value="South unit content." />
            </p:layoutUnit>

            <p:layoutUnit position="west" size="200" header="Left" resizable="true" closable="true" collapsible="true">
                <h:form>
                    <ui:include src="../templates/themeMenu.xhtml" />
                </h:form>
            </p:layoutUnit>

            <p:layoutUnit position="east" size="200" header="Right" resizable="true" closable="true" collapsible="true" effect="drop">
                <h:outputText value="Right unit content." />
            </p:layoutUnit>

            <p:layoutUnit position="center">
                <ui:insert name="content">Put default content here, if any.</ui:insert>
            </p:layoutUnit>
        </p:layout>
    </h:body>
</html>

Note the <ui:insert> in the center unit.

The template client can then just look like this:

/page.xhtml

<ui:composition template="/WEB-INF/templates/layout.xhtml"
     xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
     xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
     xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
     xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
     xmlns:p="http://primefaces.org/ui"
>
     <ui:define name="content">
         <p>Here goes your view-specific content.</p>
     </ui:define>
</ui:composition>

which you open by http://example.com/contextname/page.xhtml.

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