Your code looks perfect.

But I don't understand why you posted two differtent solutions (xslt and page fields).

Hi Sean

Have you inserted the XSLT macro inside the head-section of your page? Or are you using the umbraco:Item's to render the meta-tags?

This part:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [ &lt;!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"
    exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library">
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
<xsl:param name="currentPage"/>
  <xsl:variable name="title" select="/macro/title"/>
  <xsl:variable name="keywords" select="/macro/keywords"/>
<xsl:variable name="description" select="/macro/description"/>
  <xsl:template match="/">
  <title><xsl:value-of select="{$title}"/></title>
  <meta name="keywords" content="{$keywords}" />
<meta name="description" content="{$description}" />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

should wotk if you have inserted the macro inside the template.

But this part:

<umbraco:Item field="metaDescription" insertTextBefore="&lt;meta name=&quot;description&quot; content=&quot;" insertTextAfter="&quot; /&gt;" runat="server"></umbraco:Item>
<umbraco:Item field="metaKeywords" insertTextBefore="&lt;meta name=&quot;keywords&quot; content=&quot;" insertTextAfter="&quot; /&gt;" runat="server"></umbraco:Item>

would only generate the description and keywords meta-tags if you insert these in the template.

/Kim A

Hi All,

Using the XSLT macro above.

1. I created 3 fields in the document type keywords, description and title.
2. I then added the macro into my template  <umbraco:Macro Alias="CreateMetatags" runat="server"></umbraco:Macro>
3. I put some content in each of these fields and then published the document.

Now I get the error below:

Error reading XSLT file: \xslt\seanMetaTags.xslt

Any ideas what i'm missing?

Sean

Hi Sean,

Go to your xslt file in the Developer section of umbraco and click the "visualise xslt" button. Choose a page on your site where you have entered the title fields etc. Does the visualisation give the expected output? If there are problems with the xslt, you will get an error with more detail here.

Hi Lesley,

Here is the output from the visual. What am I missing?

Sean,

Can you check line 2. Do you really have

<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [ &lt;!ENTITY nbsp "&#x00A0;"> ]>

or perhaps it should be

<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [ <!ENTITY nbsp "&#x00A0;"> ]>

(Note the &lt;)

Hi again Sean.

I'd check the thing that Lesley mentioned as well, to see if the error disappears.

Beside that, if you have created three fields on your document types for each of the three meta tags, then you should probably change this code:

<xsl:variable name="title" select="/macro/title"/>
<xsl:variable name="keywords" select="/macro/keywords"/>
<xsl:variable name="description" select="/macro/description"/>

to something like this:

<xsl:variable name="title" select="$currentPage/title"/>
<xsl:variable name="keywords" select="$currentPage/keywords"/>
<xsl:variable name="description" select="$currentPage/description"/>

/Kim A

Hi Guys,

Thanks very much for the help. I played around with the code, taking all suggestions on ob board. I finally got it to work after having a little trouble with the title.

I Appreciate your help.

Sean

<?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"
    exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library">
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
<xsl:param name="currentPage"/>
<xsl:variable name="title" select="$currentPage/title"/>
<xsl:variable name="keywords" select="$currentPage/keywords"/>
<xsl:variable name="description" select="$currentPage/description"/>
<xsl:variable name="googlekey" select="$currentPage/googlekey"/>      
      
  <xsl:template match="/">
<title><xsl:value-of select="$currentPage/title"/></title>
  <meta name="keywords" content="{$keywords}" />
<meta name="description" content="{$description}" />
    <meta name="verify-v1" content="{$googlekey}" />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Great to hear Sean.

Just a quick note: you could consider using the $title instead of $currentPage/title in the title-element, or just skip the creation of the title-variable. It's just a small thing, but just wanted to let you know :)

/Kim A

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