Hi Amir

To choose a parent node, youd need to pass in a macro paramater using the content picker control.

E.g. paramater alias of "startNode", then when you insert the macro you can select start node (e.g 1155)

Then add something like this

<xsl:variable name="startNode" select="/macro/startNode" />

Then change the line that goes

<xsl:apply-templates select="$currentPage/node [string(data [@alias='umbracoNaviHide']) != '1']">

to something like  (ps $currentPage will need to be changed to 

umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($startNode)

wherever it appears)

<xsl:apply-templates select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($startNode)/node [string(data [@alias='umbracoNaviHide']) != '1']">

To change the descriptions etc just find the relevant line in the xslt and replace it with your own page fields, e.g.

<xsl:value-of select="concat('&lt;![CDATA[ ', ./data
[@alias='bodyText'],']]&gt;')" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>

becomes

<xsl:value-of select="concat('&lt;![CDATA[ ', ./data
[@alias='YourDescriptionFieldAlias'],']]&gt;')" disable-output-escaping="yes"/

etc.

To change the pubdate, you need to change the variable "pubdate" so that it grabs the date that you've set in the backend, from something like

  <xsl:variable name="pubDate">
    <xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/node">
      <xsl:sort select="@createDate" data-type="text" order="descending" />
      <xsl:if test="position() = 1">
        <xsl:value-of select="updateDate" />
      </xsl:if>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:variable>

to

  <xsl:variable name="pubDate">
    <xsl:for-each select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($startNode)/node">
      <xsl:sort select="@createDate" data-type="text" order="descending" />
      <xsl:if test="position() = 1">
        <xsl:value-of select="./data [@alias='YourDateField']" />
      </xsl:if>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:variable>

(note, this still sorts by createDate)

All code it untested, and meant as a starting point, not a complete solution!  Good luck.

Dan

Dan, thank you so much for this. This is overall working great, but I'm still struggling with a couple of issues.

1. I still can't get the date to show in the feed

2. How do i make it so the main content area is truncated after a bit instead of showing the whole story?

Here's the code as i've modified it.

Thank you,

Amir

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
  version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  xmlns:rssdatehelper="urn:rssdatehelper"
  xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
  xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
  xmlns:msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" 
  xmlns:umbraco.library="urn:umbraco.library" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltCommon="urn:Exslt.ExsltCommon" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes="urn:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltMath="urn:Exslt.ExsltMath" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions="urn:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltStrings="urn:Exslt.ExsltStrings" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltSets="urn:Exslt.ExsltSets" 
  exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library Exslt.ExsltCommon Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes Exslt.ExsltMath Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions Exslt.ExsltStrings Exslt.ExsltSets ">


  <xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

  <xsl:param name="currentPage"/>

  <!-- Update these variables to modify the feed -->
  <xsl:variable name="startNode" select="/macro/startNode" />
  <xsl:variable name="RSSNoItems" select="string('10')"/>
  <xsl:variable name="RSSTitle" select="string('my website')"/>
  <xsl:variable name="SiteURL" select="string('http://www.my url.net')"/>
  <xsl:variable name="RSSDescription" select="string('my description')"/>
  <xsl:variable name="startNode" select="/macro/startNode" />



  <!-- This gets all news and events and orders by updateDate to use for the pubDate in RSS feed -->
  <xsl:variable name="pubDate">
    <xsl:for-each select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($startNode)/node">
      <xsl:sort select="@createDate" data-type="text" order="ascending" />
      <xsl:if test="position() = 1">
        <xsl:value-of select="./data [@alias='date']" />
      </xsl:if>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:variable>

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <!-- change the mimetype for the current page to xml -->
    <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:ChangeContentType('text/xml')"/>

    <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;</xsl:text>
    <rss version="2.0"
    xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
    xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
>

      <channel>
        <title>
          <xsl:value-of select="$RSSTitle"/>
        </title>
        <link>
          <xsl:value-of select="$SiteURL"/>
        </link>
        <pubDate>
          <xsl:value-of select="$pubDate"/>
        </pubDate>
        <generator>umbraco</generator>
        <description>
          <xsl:value-of select="$RSSDescription"/>
        </description>
        <language>en</language>

        <xsl:apply-templates select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($startNode)/node [string(data [@alias='umbracoNaviHide']) != '1']">
          <xsl:sort select="@createDate" order="descending" />
        </xsl:apply-templates>
      </channel>
    </rss>

  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="node">
    <xsl:if test="position() &lt;= $RSSNoItems">
      <item>
        <title>
          <xsl:value-of select="concat('&lt;![CDATA[ ', ./data [@alias='mainheading'],']]&gt;')" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
        </title>
        <link>
          <xsl:value-of select="$SiteURL"/>
          <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)"/>
        </link>
        <pubDate>
          <xsl:value-of select="concat('&lt;![CDATA[ ', ./data [@alias='date'],']]&gt;')" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
        </pubDate>
        <guid>
          <xsl:value-of select="$SiteURL"/>
          <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)"/>
        </guid>
        <content:encoded>
          <xsl:value-of select="concat('&lt;![CDATA[ ', ./data [@alias='bodyText'],']]&gt;')" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
        </content:encoded>
      </item>
    </xsl:if>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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