Static file?

Hi,
I have a help.html file wihich needs to be on every page of the application. I upload it as a static file. But I don't know how to call it and from where?
Can someone help me?
Thanks,
Helen

I did like you suggest:
help.html
But when I click the link, error out "Page not
found". When I point to the link, it shows:
http://<server name:port>/pls/apex/WORKSPACE.
Try putting # around the wokspace_image text??
Thank you,
Tony Miller
UTMB/EHN

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    e.printStackTrace();
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    import javax.servlet.*;
    import javax.servlet.http.*;
    import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
    import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
    import java.io.FileOutputStream;
    import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
    import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
    import java.io.File;
    import java.io.*;
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    public String getRSSFile(){
    return _RSSFile;
    public void setRSSFile(String fileName, String outputURL){
    try {
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    StreamSource finalStyle = new StreamSource("final.xsl");
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    Transformer transformer = transFactory.newTransformer(finalStyle);
    transformer.transform(source, result);
    } catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
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    %>
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    <head>
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    </head>
    <body>
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