You can't use .Take or .Skip on DynamicXml. You could use LinqToXml instead to do this.

Jeroen

There is a problem with extension methods on dynamic objects.

If you instantiate a DynamicNode, then call those methods on it, you will have access to Take()

eg.  

@{
var start = new DynamicNode(Model.Id).AncestorOrSelf(1).Descendants("PortfolioItem");
}

This is my XML and now i will do the following:

go to the root and check all nodes with Alias PortfolioItem i have multiple of these.

Next step-> Loop over the property portfolioImages (DAMP) and get all the mediaItems from those

Next step->my logic is to put all the mediaItem nodes in a DynamicNodeList and use the .Take(10).OrderBy("someDate desc") for a slideshow on a homepage with recent artworks.

I hope somebody has a solution or first steps to go on with the problem.

Thanks to all hints. Greetings Toni

<PortfolioItem id="1171" parentID="1072" level="3" writerID="0" creatorID="0" nodeType="1061" template="0" sortOrder="6" createDate="2011-08-05T12:59:58" updateDate="2011-08-05T16:21:10" nodeName="3d" urlName="3d" writerName="Toni Becker" creatorName="Toni Becker" path="-1,1069,1072,1171" isDoc="">
        <portfolioImages>
          <DAMP fullMedia="">
            <mediaItem>
              <Image id="1161" version="16ac3c18-8af7-4c09-9c95-249dd48c32ba" parentID="1121" level="4" writerID="0" nodeType="1032" template="0" sortOrder="3" createDate="2011-08-05T12:50:49" updateDate="2011-08-05T12:50:49" nodeName="3d3.jpg" urlName="3d3.jpg" writerName="Toni Becker" nodeTypeAlias="Image" path="-1,1046,1049,1121,1161">
                <umbracoFile>/media/1161/3d3.jpg</umbracoFile>
                <umbracoWidth>1024</umbracoWidth>
                <umbracoHeight>768</umbracoHeight>
                <umbracoBytes>248974</umbracoBytes>
                <umbracoExtension>jpg</umbracoExtension>
                <captionText />
                <captionText2 />
                <portfolioThumbs>
                  <crops date="05/08/2011 12:50:50">
                    <crop name="Slideshow Groß" x="0" y="101" x2="1024" y2="666" url="/media/1161/3d3_Slideshow Groß.jpg" />
                    <crop name="Slideshow Klein" x="0" y="111" x2="1024" y2="656" url="/media/1161/3d3_Slideshow Klein.jpg" />
                    <crop name="Slider Porfolio" x="11" y="0" x2="1011" y2="768" url="/media/1161/3d3_Slider Porfolio.jpg" />
                    <crop name="Unternehmen Slider" x="0" y="48" x2="1024" y2="718" url="/media/1161/3d3_Unternehmen Slider.jpg" />
                    <crop name="Leistung" x="128" y="0" x2="896" y2="768" url="/media/1161/3d3_Leistung.jpg" />
                    <crop name="Portfolio" x="0" y="88" x2="1024" y2="678" url="/media/1161/3d3_Portfolio.jpg" />
                    <crop name="Blog" x="0" y="251" x2="1024" y2="515" url="/media/1161/3d3_Blog.jpg" />
                    <crop name="Sidebar" x="0" y="33" x2="1024" y2="733" url="/media/1161/3d3_Sidebar.jpg" />
                  </crops>
                </portfolioThumbs>
                <portfolioVideoLink />
                <portfolioTitel />
                <portfolioText><![CDATA[]]></portfolioText>
              </Image>
            </mediaItem>
            <mediaItem>
                <Image>
                    <umbracoFile></umbracoFile>
                    <portfolioThumbs>
                    .....
                    </portfolioThumbs>
                </Image>
            </mediaItem>
            <mediaItem>
                <Image>
                    <umbracoFile></umbracoFile>
                    <portfolioThumbs>
                    .....
                    </portfolioThumbs>
                </Image>
            </mediaItem>
        </DAMP>
    </portfolioImages>
</PortfolioItem>   

Do you want 10 nodes from the first PortfolioItem and then 10 from the next PortfolioItem ?

Or do you want just 10 portfolioImages from your entire site? 

If it is the latter that you want then you can do this....

@using umbracoMacroEngines;
@using System.Linq
@{
var dampXml =newDynamicNode(-1).Descendants("portfolioImages").Items.OrderByDescending(x => x.GetProperty("yourDatePropertyAlias").Value).Take(10);

foreach(var xml in dampXml){
// get the umbracoFile value from the DAMP xml
 string url = XDocument.Parse(xml).Descendants("umbracoFile").FirstOrDefault();

// now do something with your image url 


} 

Throws an error:

Error loading Razor Script ~/macroscripts/startseiteportfolio.cshtml
c:\inetpub\wwwroot\3dHTML5\macroScripts\StartseitePortfolio.cshtml(9): error CS1502: The best overloaded method match for 'System.Xml.Linq.XDocument.Parse(string)' has some invalid arguments

i referrenced @using System.Linq and @using System.Xml.Linq and @using System.Xml :/

My bad...

I think this will work...

dampXml was meant to be an IEnumberable<string>

@using umbracoMacroEngines;
@usingSystem.Linq
@{
var dampXml =newDynamicNode(-1).Descendants("PortfolioItem").Items.OrderByDescending(x => x.GetProperty("yourDatePropertyAlias").Value).Select(x => x.GetProperty("portfolioImages")).Take(10);

foreach(var xml indampXml){
// get the umbracoFile value from the DAMP xml
 string url =XDocument.Parse(xml).Descendants("umbracoFile").FirstOrDefault();

// now do something with your image url 


}

hmm same problem appearing :;/

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