Hi Matt,

There are neater ways to do it (try looking up the Muenchian method) but I did a similar thing to this to group articles under month headings a while back.  Hopefully you'll find this post useful: http://our.umbraco.org/forum/developers/xslt/8098-Get-property-of-sibling-within-loop.

Hello Dan,

Thank you for your reply.

I looked at your posting and followed it without any problem.

Unfortunarley when I tried it I found the use of preceeding-sibling was no good due to the way my content is organised.

All the event items are in separate folders to make administration easier and in most cases the preceeding-sibling is nothing.

Events

- 2010

-- January

--- 2010 World Cup Semi-Final  

--- 2010 World Cup Final  

-- February

--- FA Cup Final  

- 2009

-- January

--- Rugby Junior League  

-- February

--- Grand Master

Is these some way I can store the previous sport value in a variable?

Regards,

Matt

Thanks for the link Tommy.

It's late on a Sunday night and my understanding of it is just above zero but somehow I have managed to push the right buttons and get the output I require....I think.

This is what I've ended up with, just needs some tidying.

<xsl:variable name="source" select="/macro/source"/>
<xsl:key  name="sports" match="node" use="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById(data [@alias = 'Sport'])/@nodeName"/>

<xsl:template match="/">

<!-- The fun starts here -->
<ul class="eventslist">
<xsl:for-each select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($source)/descendant::node[@nodeTypeAlias='Event' and string(data [@alias='umbracoNaviHide']) != '1' and generate-id() = generate-id(key('sports', umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById(data [@alias = 'Sport'])/@nodeName)[1])]">
<xsl:sort select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById(data [@alias = 'Sport'])/@nodeName" />
  <li><xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById(data [@alias = 'Sport'])/@nodeName"/><br/></li>

    <xsl:for-each select="key('sports',umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById(data [@alias = 'Sport'])/@nodeName)">
    <xsl:sort select="data [@alias = 'Date']" order="ascending"/>        
    <li class="event">
        <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">
        <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/>
        &nbsp;
        <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:FormatDateTime(data[@alias='Date'],'dd/MM/yyyy')"/>
        </a>
      </li>
      </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:for-each>
</ul>

</xsl:template>

Thanks again guys.

Hi Matt, hope you got it working - unless don't hesitate to ask

>Tommy

Hello all,

I'm back again with a query about this Muenchian method.

This code was all working well...

 <xsl:variable name="source" select="/macro/source"/>
  <xsl:key  name="sports" match="node" use="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById(data [@alias = 'Sport'])/@nodeName"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <!-- The fun starts here -->
    <xsl:for-each select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($source)/descendant::node[@nodeTypeAlias='Event' and string(data [@alias='umbracoNaviHide']) != '1' and generate-id() = generate-id(key('sports', umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById(data [@alias = 'Sport'])/@nodeName)[1])]">
      <xsl:sort select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById(data [@alias = 'Sport'])/@nodeName" />
      <a class="menuitem submenuheader" href="#" >
        <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById(data [@alias = 'Sport'])/@nodeName"/>
      </a>
      <div class="submenu">
        <ul>
          <xsl:for-each select="key('sports',umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById(data [@alias = 'Sport'])/@nodeName)">
            <xsl:sort select="data [@alias = 'EventCalendarDate']" order="ascending"/>
            <li>
              <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">
                <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/>
              </a>
            </li>
          </xsl:for-each>
        </ul>
      </div>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:template>

...and listing all my sporting events nicely grouped by sport e.g.

Chess
    Grand Master
Football
    FA Cup Final
    2010 World Cup Semi-Final
    2010 World Cup Final
Rugby
    Rugby Junior League

However during recent testing I discovered that if I set the umbracoNaviHide = true on the 'FA Cup Final' event, all the events under the Football disappear.

I have fixed it by moving the umbracoNaviHide!= '1' logic to an IF test later on but it feels a bit hacky.

  <xsl:variable name="source" select="/macro/source"/>
  <xsl:key name="sports" match="node" use="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById(data [@alias = 'Sport'])/@nodeName"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <!-- The fun starts here -->
    <xsl:for-each select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($source)/descendant::node[@nodeTypeAlias='Event' and generate-id() = generate-id(key('sports', umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById(data [@alias = 'Sport'])/@nodeName)[1])]">
      <xsl:sort select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById(data [@alias = 'Sport'])/@nodeName" />
      <a class="menuitem submenuheader" href="#" >
        <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById(data [@alias = 'Sport'])/@nodeName"/>
      </a>
      <div class="submenu">
        <ul>
          <xsl:for-each select="key('sports',umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById(data [@alias = 'Sport'])/@nodeName)">
            <xsl:sort select="data [@alias = 'Date']" order="ascending"/>
            <xsl:if test="string(data [@alias='umbracoNaviHide']) != '1' and string(data [@alias='HideFromBySportCalendar']) != '1'">
              <li>
                <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}" rel="eventy">
                  <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/>
                </a>
              </li>
            </xsl:if>
          </xsl:for-each>
        </ul>
      </div>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:template>

I'm sure there's a better way to do it. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks, Matt

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