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Connie DeCinko 931 posts 1160 karma points

Jul 28, 2010 @ 23:40
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ancestor-or-self with new schema
What is the proper way to refer to ancestor-or-self with the new 4.5 schema? The old version is:
```
$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::node/data [@alias = 'metaKeywords']
```
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criticalmaas 10 posts 28 karma points

Jul 28, 2010 @ 23:44
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I think it would be:
```
$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::metaKeywords
```
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Connie DeCinko 931 posts 1160 karma points

Jul 29, 2010 @ 00:02

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Not getting any results.

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Chriztian Steinmeier 2798 posts 8788 karma points MVP 8x admin c-trib

Jul 29, 2010 @ 00:06
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Hi Connie,

If you know the nodeTypeAlias (e.g. 'Textpage') of your document type, you should use that:
```
$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::Textpage/metaKeywords
```
Otherwise, use the more generic:
```
$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::*[@isDoc]/metaKeywords
```
/Chriztian
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Connie DeCinko 931 posts 1160 karma points

Jul 29, 2010 @ 00:31
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All of the above should work, but are not. Gotta be missing something.
```
<xsl:attribute name="content">
  <xsl:value-of select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::* /metaKeywords" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
</xsl:attribute>
```
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Chriztian Steinmeier 2798 posts 8788 karma points MVP 8x admin c-trib

Jul 29, 2010 @ 00:49
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Hi Connie,

This could be related to a question I just wrote a loooong answer for... try this:
```
<xsl:attribute name="content">
    <xsl:value-of select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::*[metaKeywords[normalize-space()]][1]/metaKeywords" />
</xsl:attribute>
```
This will take the metaKeywords property on the closest ancestor that actually has a value set for it.

/Chriztian
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Connie DeCinko 931 posts 1160 karma points

Jul 29, 2010 @ 00:57

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That works! When you have time, it would be nice to know why.

Thanks!

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Chriztian Steinmeier 2798 posts 8788 karma points MVP 8x admin c-trib

Jul 29, 2010 @ 00:59

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Great - that's good!

The answer I mentioned is right here: http://our.umbraco.org/forum/developers/xslt/10934-XSLT-fails-after-publish?p=0#comment40836

/Chriztian

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criticalmaas 10 posts 28 karma points

Jul 29, 2010 @ 01:00
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or you might want try a text() !='' test as in:
```
<xsl:attribute name="content">
  <xsl:value-of select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::metaKeywords[text() !='']"/>
</xsl:attribute>
```
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