Do you use Umbraco version 4.5+? Maybe you have the wrong xsl-scheme. Since 4.5+ have change the xsl-scheme.

I downloaded Umbraco this week so I'm going to guess its the latest, whichever that is?

I am new to Umbraco and XSL, if I have the wrong schema then how do I fix this?

You can see what version you have with the "About"-Button in the right-top border of your umbraco-backend.

You can convert the old to new xsl-schema with the tool of this site:

http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/xslt/45-xml-schema/xslt-examples-updated-to-new-schema

Any examples with differences of both schemas you can find here:

http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/xslt/45-xml-schema/xslt-examples-updated-to-new-schema

Most of video tutorials shows the old xsl-schema only.

I am using v.4.7.1

I only copied the GetMedia/ value of lines from Tim's code so surely I am not running an old schema? although I will double check this....

.....oh, I think I see what you mean now! Thanks for the link

I have changed the code to this, which I think is in accordance with the new schema:

 <xsl:value-of select="$currentPage/mediaItem"/>
    <xsl:copy-of select="umbraco.library:GetMedia($currentPage/mediaItem, 'false')"/>
    

But I'm still getting the same error, can someone help?

EDIT: I checked the skip testing button and saved, and was then able to visualise the XSLT successfully as in the video. So I guess that works then..

 I am now stuck on the next step of the video tutorial where I have to set the image source to the path returned by get media.

I have followed Tim's example:

<img src="{umbraco.library:GetMedia($currentPage/mediaItem, 'false')}" />

But when I load the page it says 'error reading xslt file'. I then tried to follow the examples on the new schema by Warren Buckley, as linked to in the previous answer to my post and came up with this:

 <h2> Path </h2>
    <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:GetMedia($currentPage/mediaItem, 'false')"/>
  <xsl:variable name = "imgSrc" select="umbraco.library:GetMedia($currentPage/mediaItem, 'false')" />
  <h2> Image </h2>
  <img src="$imgSrc"/>

  The page loads without the error message for this but the image does not load. When I inspect the element in chrome a tooltip message next to the variable '$imgSrc' gives the following message: "Failed to load given URL"

Any help appreciated

You must write the variable into {}.

Write this: 

<img src="{$imgSrc}"/>

When I add the curly brackets the page loads with an error message: "Error parsing XSLT file: \xslt\GetMediaItem.xslt"

So I guess this brings me back full-circle to the original problem? I have tried to change the code according to the latest xsl schema but am getting errors when I try to save the xslt file in umbraco. I thought I had gotten past that by checking the 'ignore errors' box but with the added curly brackets as you suggested I am not back to the original error that I stated in my post.... unless it is another error altogether?!

Have the documenttype of currentPage a property with alias mediaItem (datatype: mediapicker)?

This is another example to use umbraco.library GetMedia:

http://blog.leekelleher.com/2010/08/11/how-to-use-umbraco-library-getmedia-in-xslt-for-umbraco-v4-5/

Hi Bob,

The error might be because when you save the XSLT, it attempts to parse it for testing and may not have a value for GetMedia, which will fail if it's not passed a good value.  So you can try clicking the ignore errors checkbox and seeing if it works on the front end, or the better way is to do a test before your getmedia call:

<xsl:if test="number($currentPage/mediaItem) &gt; 0">
  <xsl:variable name="imgSrc" select="umbraco.library:GetMedia($currentPage/mediaItem, 'false')" />
  <h2> Image </h2>
  <img src="{$imgSrc}"/>
</xsl:if>

-Tom

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