To add: The Macro is in the Master Template

Hi Roger,

You should be able to always locate the right nodes using something like this:

<!-- Find the "Stella Maris" node from any descendant -->
<xsl:variable name="siteRoot" select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::*[@level = 1]" />

<!-- Locate "Sidebar Control" folder -->
<xsl:variable name="sidebarNode" select="$siteRoot/../SidebarControl" /><!-- Use the actual doctype alias -->

<xsl:for-each select="$sidebarNode/Sidebars">
    <div class="hotspot">
        <h4><xsl:value-of select="sidebarHeading" disable-output-escaping="yes" /></h4>
        <img width="52" height="52" src="/images/icons/dezinerfolio/info.png" />
        <xsl:value-of select="sidebarContent" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
    </div>
</xsl:for-each>

/Chriztian

Hi Chriztian,

That didnt work unfortunately. No errors but the sidebars disappeared from the homepage.

Its just a development site at the moment so Im happy to give login details

Thank you very much for the help

Roger

Hi Roger,

Did you use the actual doctype alias for the SidebarControl?

The thing is, your sidebarNode variable actually selects all the level 1 nodes ("Stella Maris", "Sidebar Control" & "Slider Control") because the selector goes through currentPage and all its ancestors, selecting all of their children, then filtering by the level attribute.

The only reason the for-each grabs the right nodes is because you have no Sidebars documents as children of neither "Stella Maris" nor "Slider Control"...

It's not a big problem in this setup - but you're very likely to refer to this for another site maybe, and if you're on a big site, those kinds of selectors can get very slow and have sideeffects because of the amount of nodes that are really selected.

/Chriztian

Ah I see, that makes sense.

I'll give that a go and see if it works

Many thanks for all the help

Roger

Hi chriztian,

I tried that but the sidebars failed to display on all pages again,

This code works:

 <xsl:variable name="sidebarNode" select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::*/child::*[@level=1]"/>
      <xsl:for-each select="$sidebarNode/child::Sidebars">
          <div class="hotspot">
                  <h4><xsl:value-of select="sidebarHeading" disable-output-escaping="yes"/></h4>
            <img width="52" height="52" src="/images/icons/dezinerfolio/info.png" />
                  <xsl:value-of select="sidebarContent" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
          </div>
      </xsl:for-each>

Am i doing something wrong I wonder?

Roger

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