Q:

Cisco 3548XL VLANs, no router

I am working on a project currently in our lab.   I have 1 3548XL with an uplink to our telco. 
Most of my Cisco experience is on the 6500 platform so I am used to having L3 features at my disposal.   Is it possible with the 3548 to have each of my nodes in a different VLAN and still get out to the Internet via our uplink?   I cannot run dot1q for our uplink.   An engineer told me this wasn't possible without router on a stick or an L3 switch.   
Any advice here is appreciated, for the sake of learning, if the answer is "no", could you explain why? 
Thanks

A:

The 3548XL is a L2 only switch.  It does not have the capability to route.  If you had to use a Cisco switch to route you could use a 3550/3560/3750.