I should point out I've inherited a project and suspect a lot of stuff is not done 'correctly'

OK, I've got rid of the named nodes.

<xsl:for-each select = "$currentpage/* [@isDoc and showInSlider=1]">

This works for everything below the current page (obviously).  I want to break out of that and pull all pages where showInSlider is checked.  Something like:

<xsl:for-each select = "umbraco.library:GetXmlAll()/* [@isDoc and showInSlider=1]">

Any help will be gratefully received.

Hi Tony.
Obviously you are along the right lines with the currentPage only getting the child items.
You need to ammend your XSLT so it first walks upto the top level node from the currentPage first then to apply your child filter you need.

So for example:

<xsl:for-each select = "$currentpage/ancestor-or-self::myHomeNodeAlias/* [@isDoc and showInSlider=1]">

Hope this helps.

Warren :)

Thanks for that.  However, pasting your response results in this error

The variable or parameter 'currentpage' is either not defined or it is out of scope

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [ <!ENTITY nbsp "&#x00A0;"> ]>
<xsl:stylesheet 
  version="1.0" 
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
  xmlns:msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
  xmlns:umbraco.library="urn:umbraco.library" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltCommon="urn:Exslt.ExsltCommon" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes="urn:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltMath="urn:Exslt.ExsltMath" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions="urn:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltStrings="urn:Exslt.ExsltStrings" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltSets="urn:Exslt.ExsltSets" 
  exclude-result-prefixes="msxml
 umbraco.library Exslt.ExsltCommon Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes 
Exslt.ExsltMath Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions Exslt.ExsltStrings 
Exslt.ExsltSets ">


<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" />

<xsl:param name="currentPage" />

<xsl:template match="/">
          
    <ul>
      <xsl:for-each select = "$currentpage/ancestor-or-self::myHomeNodeAlias/* [@isDoc and showInSlider=1]">
        <li>
          <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName" />
        </li>
      </xsl:for-each>
      <li>
        Hardcoded
      </li>
    </ul>
          

</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Should I be replacing 'myHomeNodeAlias'?

Sorry a typo on my behalf. $currentpage should be $currentPage and yes obviously the nodetype alias should be changed from myHomeNodeAlias to the alias of the top level node. Normally people have a specific document type for the homepage. If this is not the case let me know and we can try another xpath.

But basically your goal is to get from currentPage to walk up the tree to the most top level node and then to walk back down it with your
/* [@isDoc and showInSlider=1]

Warren

<xsl:for-each select = "$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::site/* [showInSlider=1]">

Returning nothing

Thank you so very much.  This should help me with just about everything I've been having issues with.

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