Hi Phil,

Couldn't you save the node id's in your custom property instead, then you could use split them and use umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById ?

Rich

Hi Rich, Can you give me an example of how i can 'split' them?

Sure

<xsl:variable name="colours" select="1092,1011,1012" />

<xsl:variable name="splitcolours" select="umbraco.library:Split($colours, ',')" />
<xsl:for-each select="$splitcolours/value">

<xsl:variable name="currentNode" select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById(.)"/>

<li>
<a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl($currentNode/@id)}"><xsl:value-of select="$currentNode/@nodeName"/></a>
</li>

</xsl:for-each>

to be honest ive never managed to get to grips totally with xslt. Below is my code. The divs with the class 'weloveitem' i what i am wanting to create a new loop around.

each item that is being looped through has a property 'associatedProducts' which is the one that returns a string value ('blue,black,red'). So i need to create a loop within the below loop that then displays the nodes specified in the string. I have amended my customer datatype so that it saves the node id's but i cant get this xslt to work. when i try adding the variables you suggested i just keep getting an 'error at line' error.

<xsl:param name="currentPage"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
  
<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/* [@isDoc and string(@id) != '2144']">
  <div class="ProductCategoryContainer">
    <img src="{concat(substring-before(mainShot,'.'), '.jpg')}" alt="{@nodeName}" width="160" height="120" class="productCategoryImage" />
    <h2>
      <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}?categoryId=1">
        <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName" />
      </a>
    </h2>
    <xsl:for-each select="./* [@isDoc]">
      <ul class="subCategoryListOnCategoryPage">
        <li><a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}?searchingForProduct=1"><xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/></a></li>
      </ul>
    </xsl:for-each>
    <div class="weLoveBox">

      <p><b>We love:</b></p>
      <div class="weLoveHolder">
        
        <div class="weLoveItem">1</div>
        <div class="weLoveItem">2</div>
        <div class="weLoveItem">3</div>
        
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
  
  </xsl:for-each>


</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Which property holds the split ID's from your custom control in the above XSLT?

Rich 

Product Page 
-----subcategory
  ---product
---product

The products page contains the property that has the comma separated string created by the custom control, this property is called "associatedProducts". the xslt is on the products page. currently it displays all the sub categories, then the products beneath them in this bit:

    <xsl:for-each select="./* [@isDoc]">
      <ul class="subCategoryListOnCategoryPage">
        <li><a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}?searchingForProduct=1"><xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/></a></li>
      </ul>
    </xsl:for-each>


I want to then create another loop in the 'weloveholder' div like this (i know this is incorrect syntax):
      <div class="weLoveHolder">
        <xsl:for-each select="./* [@id = $seperatedValueId]">
         <div class="weLoveItem"><xsl:value-of select="@nodeName" /></div>
        </xsl:for-each>
      </div>

basically after somehow separating the id's i then need to check if any the node ids of the product pages match any of the ones in the
string returned by my 'associatedproducts' property. Just a thought. Could i do a 'contains' match with the nodeid and the associated
products string?

Hi Rich. Tried this as soon as i got in work. Does exactly what i needed! thanks

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