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  • Steve 472 posts 1216 karma points
    Oct 12, 2012 @ 21:49
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    Referencing A Property of a Doctype

    How would I refrence the property "featuredImage" of a DocType named "NewsArticle" using xslt?

    I believe it would be something like this:

    <xsl:variable name="featuredNewsImges" select="$currentPage/ancestor::NewsArticle[@featureedImage]"/>

    I am trying to select these "featuredImage" 's and put them in a slideshow.

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  • Chriztian Steinmeier 2726 posts 8320 karma points MVP 4x admin c-trib
    Oct 12, 2012 @ 22:55
    Chriztian Steinmeier
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    Hi Steve,

    Properties get their own element in the XML - e.g.:

    <NewsArticle isDoc="" id="1200" nodeName="My News Story">
   <featuredImage></featuredImage>
</NewsArticle>

    (Shorten a lot - but the general idea should be clear)

    So when you've successfully located the NewsArticle you just add /featuredImage to get that - @ is used for the attributes (e.g. @isDoc, @id etc.)

    That's one thing - the other thing is that you're only searching along the ancestor axis of the current page, which might not be enough - you might want to locate a common ancestor first, and then go down that one to select the NewsArticles - something like this:

    <xsl:variable name="siteRoot" select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::*[@level = 1]" />
<xsl:variable name="newsRoot" select="$siteRoot/NewsArticles" />
<xsl:variable name="featuredImages" select="$newsRoot//NewsArticle/featuredImage" />

    /Chriztian

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  • Steve 472 posts 1216 karma points
    Oct 15, 2012 @ 14:18
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    Chriztian,
    Thanks! but I am still very new to Umbraco and xslt/xpath. How would the xsl tag look to refrence the "NewsArticle" if the folder is located at "Content/Home Page/News/Alumni/2012" under the Umbraco content section? I would greatly appreaciate this help as it would help me better understand xslt.

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