Can't you include the AFTER clause in the for-each to filter out these that shouldn't be in the list and then start from 1 using position()?

Cheers,

/Dirk

Do you know what the offset position is? Can you get it into a variable? If so, just do some simple math?

position() - $positionOffset < 3

Matt

yeah, but i don't really know the postition offset... i really need a way to re-seed the position() i think nodeset is what i want, but not sure how to implement...

here is my code snippet

<xsl:variable name="numToShow"
 select="number($currentPage/howManyEventItemsToList)"/>
  
  <xsl:variable name="nodes" select="umbraco.library:GetXmlAll()//* [name() = 
$documentTypeAlias and string(umbracoNaviHide) != '1']"/>
  
  
<ul id="newsNewsList">
  <xsl:for-each
 select="position()&lt;=
 $numToShow and umbraco.library:GetXmlAll()//* [name() = 
$documentTypeAlias and string(umbracoNaviHide) != '1']">
    <xsl:sort select="eventStartDate" order="ascending"/>

i am basically letting the client specify how many events they want to show... then grabbing all events... then showing the top 3... but the postition is based on the entire list... not the ones that are past the date of today... do i just need to move my date logic into my for-each?

It can be done your way, but you'd need to iterate your events first, build up a string containing events which should be shown (ie after today) and then use split to iterate the list again (think of how xslt search is doing it...)

But, anyway, I'd move the logic into the variable 'nodes'

Cheers,

/Dirk

um, disregard that code above... that was some bad copy and paste - DOH! total blonde moment there...

anyway, this appears to work better now...

<!-- Input the documenttype you want here 
-->
<xsl:variable name="documentTypeAlias"
 select="string('EventItem')"/>
<xsl:variable name="today" select="Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes:date()"/>

<xsl:template
 match="/">
  <h3>Upcoming 
Events</h3>
<!-- The fun starts here -->
  <xsl:variable name="numToShow"
 select="number($currentPage/howManyEventItemsToList)"/>
  
  <xsl:variable name="nodes" select="umbraco.library:GetXmlAll()//* [name() = 
$documentTypeAlias and string(umbracoNaviHide) != '1']"/>
  
  
<ul id="newsNewsList">
  <xsl:for-each
 select="umbraco.library:GetXmlAll()//*
 [name() = $documentTypeAlias and string(umbracoNaviHide) != 
'1'][umbraco.library:DateGreaterThan(eventStartDate, $today)]">
    <xsl:sort select="eventStartDate" order="ascending"/>
    

  <xsl:if test="position()&lt;=
 $numToShow">
  <li>
    <p class="newsDate"><xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:FormatDateTime(eventStartDate,
 'MMMM dd, yyyy')"/><xsl:if test = "eventEndDate !=''">&nbsp;-&nbsp;<xsl:value-of
 select="umbraco.library:FormatDateTime(eventEndDate,
 'MMMM dd, yyyy')"/></xsl:if></p>
    <p class="newsHeadline"><a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}"><xsl:value-of select="pageHeading"/></a>
      <xsl:if test="eventLocation
 !=''"><br/>Location:&nbsp;<xsl:value-of select="eventLocation"/></xsl:if></p>
   </li>
  </xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
  <xsl:if test="count(umbraco.library:GetXmlAll()//*
 [name() = $documentTypeAlias and string(umbracoNaviHide) != 
'1'])&gt; $numToShow">
    <li><a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl($currentPage/@id)}/events"
 class="allNewsLink">See all 
Events Here</a></li>
    </xsl:if>
</ul>

ah, i was using dategreater than, but i had NO IDEA there was a built in greater than today - BRILLIANT!

Thanks for all the help guys! H5YR!

To complete the picture, 

<xsl:for-each select="$nodes">
<xsl:sort select="eventStartDate" order="ascending" />
... do stuff here ..
</xsl:for-each>

cheers,
doug.

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