It seems critical updating from local.xml in magento

How can it be solved?I want to 'My Cart' link not in top menu, rather in other place. So I deleted from checkout.xml:

<reference name="top.links">
    <block type="checkout/links" name="checkout_cart_link">
        <action method="addCheckoutLink"></action>
    </block>
</reference>

Then add new reference:

<reference name="top.mybasket">
    <block type="checkout/links" name="checkout_cart_link">
        <action method="addCartLink"></action>
    </block>
</reference> 

From page.xml i add this:

    <block type="开发者_StackOverflowpage/html_header" name="header" as="header">
                <block type="page/template_links" name="top.links" as="topLinks"/>
// other blocks
                <block type="page/template_links" name="top.mybasket" as="my_basket_count"/>
</block> 

Next i add in header.phtml by:

<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('my_basket_count') ?> 

All works fine. My question is how this whole process can be done in local.xml? I tried but it looks critical!

Here is the content of local.xml you need if i understand correctly your requirements:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<layout version="0.1.0">
 <default>
  <reference name="top.links">
   <remove name="checkout_cart_link"/>
  </reference>
  <reference name="root">
   <reference name="header">
    <block type="page/template_links" name="top.mybasket" as="my_basket_count"/>
   </reference>
  </reference>
  <reference name="top.mybasket">
   <block type="checkout/links" name="checkout_cart_link">
    <action method="addCartLink"></action>
   </block>
  </reference>
 </default>
</layout>