hmm, maybe i haven't explain my question very well. So when you use a datatype that give you multiple option

ie checkbox list or a list box. How do you work with these values in xslt. As you get an array

1110, 1111,  1112, 1113

so how would i do a foreach and just get '1110'

Hi Anthony,

You can use the Split method from the umbraco.library, like this:

<xsl:variable name="nodeIds" select="umbraco.library:Split('1110,1111,1112,1113', ',')" />
<xsl:for-each select="$nodeIds/value">
    <xsl:variable name="node" select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById(.)"/>
    <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl($node/@id)}">
        <xsl:value-of select="$node/@nodeName" />
    </a>
</xsl:for-each>

Inside the for-each loop, you can extract whatever page data that you want.

I did it like this:

    <xsl:variable name="categories" select="umbraco.library:Split($currentPage/data [@alias = 'categories'], ',')" />
    <xsl:for-each select="$categories/value">
      <xsl:if test=". = 1151">
        Do something
      </xsl:if>
    </xsl:for-each>

Ha, I was too slow in writing my code, and Lee's is even better ;-)

No worries Sebastiaan, it's the same concept - great minds think alike!

thanks really appreciate the response, actually learn alot thru these answers. I've gone with casey's 'contain' method. 

here's what i've got. Any thoughts on how i could add the if statement to the foreach,  

<xsl:for-each select="$home/descendant::node [@nodeTypeAlias = 'productStyle']">
<xsl:if test="contains(concat(',',data[@alias='productStyleCategories'],','),concat(',',$categoryId,','))">
// content here. 
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>

This should work:

<xsl:for-each select="$home/descendant::node [@nodeTypeAlias = 'productStyle' and contains(concat(',',data[@alias='productStyleCategories'],','),concat(',',$categoryId,','))">
...
</xsl:for-each>

Oops, missing a "]" at the end there, so:

<xsl:for-each select="$home/descendant::node [@nodeTypeAlias = 'productStyle' and contains(concat(',',data[@alias='productStyleCategories'],','),concat(',',$categoryId,','))]">
...
</xsl:for-each>

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