Thanks for the reply Thomas. I take it this means it is impossible to do it in any other way?

Jup, there is no build in way to fetch the root media items via xslt. So you have to implement it by yourself. But the code in the other thread should do it.

Thomas

Allright, thanks a lot Thomas. I'll go do that then.

Hi, you could create a mediapicker property in yr doc type, and then in yr content page set the media folder as the source for that property.  You can then use xslt to get all the items using that property.

>sajid

Hi Sajid,

Unless I misunderstand you, this will not work because I can not select the root of the media section with the mediapicker. It returns -1, which is an invalid node id.

Thomas,

I am currently trying to implement the XSLT extension, but I seem to be missing a "using directive" or an "assembly reference". Is there an Umbraco dll I should be referencing?

yep, it's a reference to cms.dll from umbraco where you use the namespace umbraco.cms.businesslogic.media

Thomas

Thank you Thomas, I got that part fixed. It seems however, that the code is not correct as it gives me a "System.InvalidOperationException: This document has a Document Element node" whenever I try to save the XSLT.

Edit:

Thomas, after playing around a bit with your code (and some googling) I made some minor changes to it.

try
{
    XmlDocument xml = new XmlDocument();
    xml.AppendChild(xml.CreateElement("mediaRoot"));
    foreach (Media item in Media.GetRootMedias())
    {
        if (item.nodeObjectType == Media._objectType)
        {
            xml.DocumentElement.AppendChild(item.ToXml(xml,true));
        }
    }
    XPathNavigator xp = xml.CreateNavigator();
    return xml.CreateNavigator().Select("/");
}
catch
{
    XmlDocument xd = new XmlDocument();
    xd.LoadXml("<error>Error at getting the root medias</error>");
    return xd.CreateNavigator().Select("/");
}

This is tested and works for me.

<xsl:for-each select="bmExt:GetRootMedias('true')/descendant::node [@nodeTypeAlias!='Folder']">

Is what I can now use to loop through each and everyone of my media items. Thank you very much for the help :)

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