title: Adding a block to magento category page using local.xml
body: <p>Before posting this, i have looked in to the following, but all of them did not helped me and i was not able to add the block. </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15777278/magento-adding-and-positioning-a-block-using-local-xml">magento - adding and positioning a block using local.xml</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5805598/magento-add-phtml-file-to-layout-block">Magento - Add phtml file to layout block</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14186458/magento-1-7show-category-image-on-category-page-in-full-width-in-a-2-column-tem">Magento 1.7:Show category image on category page in full width in a 2 column template</a></p>
  
  <p>I want to add the category image on top of the page. Currently it is displayed under the product list view, and i want it to be above the left navigation, so that it takes full page width. </p>
  
  <p>I created a template file in <strong>mytheme/template/catalog/category/image.phtml</strong>  and i just added some text "I am here". </p>
  
  <p>After that i add the following xml to my local.xml file under <strong>catalog_category_default</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;reference name="content"&gt;
      &lt;block type="catalog/category_view" name="category.image" template="catalog/category/image.phtml"&gt;&lt;/block&gt;
  &lt;/reference&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But it is still not working and the text is not displayed there. When this text is displayed, then i will display the category image, but for now i just want to make the block working and display it on top of the page. </p>
  
  <p>Thank you</p>