How do I create reusable, context-sensitive XAML code blocks?

In the following WPF, ListView

I created two ContextMenus

, one for the ListView itself and one for each specific list item. It looks something like this:

<ListView ItemsSource="{Binding Path=MyListData}">
    <ListView.ContextMenu>
        <ContextMenu>    <!-- menu for the entire list -->
            <MenuItem Header="New Item"/>
            <MenuItem Header="Sort by">
                <MenuItem Header="Name"/>
                <MenuItem Header="Author"/>
                <MenuItem Header="Date"/>
            </MenuItem>
        </ContextMenu>
    </ListView.ContextMenu>
    <ListView.ItemContainerStyle>
        <Style TargetType="{x:Type ListViewItem}">
            <Setter Property="ContextMenu">
                <Setter.Value>
                    <ContextMenu>    <!-- menu for a specific item -->
                        <MenuItem Header="Edit"/>
                        <MenuItem Header="Remove"/>
                        <Separator/>    <!-- note how the following is basically the same as the other menu -->
                        <MenuItem Header="New Item"/>
                        <MenuItem Header="Sort by">
                            <MenuItem Header="Name"/>
                            <MenuItem Header="Author"/>
                            <MenuItem Header="Date"/>
                        </MenuItem>
                    </ContextMenu>
                </Setter.Value>
            </Setter>
        </Style>
    </ListView.ItemContainerStyle>
    <ListView.View>
        <!-- ListView content -->
    </ListView.View>
</ListView>

      

        
        
        
      

    

This works, but as you can see, the first Contextmenu content is reused as part of the second. This is because I want the general options (New Item / Sort) to also be available when the user right-clicks on the item, rather than blank space. Since I plan on using this general framework more than once, I can imagine it getting pretty messy, especially when all the required command bindings are taken into account.

I tried to define DataTemplate

in <ListView.Resources>

as explained in answers to similar questions, but it doesn't work because it is not MenuItem

possible to wrap in a template non-standard . And if I include tags <ContextMenu>

in the template, there is an exception from the runtime because it ContextMenu

cannot live inside another ContextMenu

.

Is there a way to create reusable pieces of code that usually require specific parent elements? Some kind of pattern that was evaluated at compile time? All I want is more usable code.