Hi Koen,

I have the same problem, and no one seem to answer my post also,

I was able to get the root using uQuery by usinh a syntax like this in razor.

var latestNews = umbraco.uQuery.GetNode(-1).GetDescendantNodesByType("NewsItem").OrderByDescending(t => t.CreateDate).ToList();

I do not know if it is the correct way to do it but it worked.

/Tommy

hi Tommy,

Thx for the tip will try it out what i ended up doing was this : 

var root = library.GetXmlNodeByXPath("//root");

But I have a feeling I'm using a bug fot this one, because it seems like no matter what xPath i give to library.GetXmlNodeByXPath it always returns the root.

If the following is my content tree and website is displaying page NL/Projecten/Project1 my script will check if this page is available in the other language if not it will try 1 level up and so on. this way i get the closest page in the different language and can diplay a good language selector.

I decided to use it this way because then we can keep existing structure.

Content
--NL
----Home
----Projecten
------Project1
------Project2
----Agenda
----Nieuws
--FR
----Home
----Projecten
------Project1
----Agenda

 So i use xpath to see in my root-var if the current paht is available in the other language like this

var langXPath = "string(//root/langPage[@nodeName='" + lang + "']" + xpath + "/@id)";
var otherLangId = root.Current.Evaluate(langXPath).ToString()

so xpath is a var holding the XPath to the current page (from its language)

The evaluate will give me the id of the node if it exists if not i cut the xPath string and try again I'm at language root.

if i use the same XPath with library.GetXmlNodeByXPath(langXPath) I will still get the complete XML thats why I think its a bug no matter what xpath i give i always get everything.

So i will have a look at your solutions 

thanks

Hi Tommy,

Works out great but intellisense also gave me this option

var root = uQuery.GetRootNode();

I know this is ooooold post but if anyone stumbles upon this again then I use

@using umbraco.NodeFactory;
@{
var home = CurrentPage.AncestorOrSelf(1); //get first level
Node root = new Node(-1); //get root
}

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