To Call a Navigation in Footer (to call any block through xml files)

To call the navigation in footer

go to page.xml file,copy the topMenu block and place in the footer block

<block type="core/text_list" name="top.menu" as="topMenu" translate="label">
                    <label>Navigation Bar</label>
                    <block type="page/html_topmenu" name="catalog.topnav" template="page/html/topmenu.phtml"/>
 </block>


 now goto footer and call the block
   <?php echo $this->getChildHtml('topMenu') ?>
   or u can call cms page or static block too
  
  <?php echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock('cms/block')->setBlockId('footer_links')->toHtml() ?>

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