Hi all,

I have an xslt macro that has started to fail out of the blue it seems. It's been working fine until now.

It's run on an upgraded 4.0.2 install.

Ihave have made no chagnes on the site for a long time, so this sudden parsing error irritates me a lot.

the xslt:

<?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="SortOrder" select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::node[@level=1]/descendant::node [@nodeTypeAlias = 'NewsEventsListPage']/data [@alias = 'SortOrder']" />  
<xsl:variable name="SortBy" select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::node[@level=1]/descendant::node [@nodeTypeAlias = 'NewsEventsListPage']/data [@alias = 'SortBy']" /> 
<xsl:variable name="NumberofItemsToDisplay" select="$currentPage/data [@alias = 'NoNewsEvents']" />

<xsl:template match="/">

<xsl:variable name="DataType">  
    <xsl:choose>  
        <xsl:when test="$SortBy='sortOrder'">  
            <xsl:value-of select="'number'" />  
        </xsl:when>  
        <xsl:otherwise>  
            <xsl:value-of select="'text'" />  
        </xsl:otherwise>  
    </xsl:choose>  
</xsl:variable>

<ul id="NewsList">
<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::node[@level=1]/descendant::node [@nodeTypeAlias = 'NewsEventsListPage']/node [string(data [@alias='umbracoNaviHide']) != '1']">
<xsl:sort select="@*[name() = $SortBy]" order="{$SortOrder}" data-type="{$DataType}"/>
 <xsl:if test="position()&lt;= $NumberofItemsToDisplay"> 
  <xsl:variable name="Class"> 
   <xsl:choose> 
    <xsl:when test="@nodeTypeAlias='Event'"> 
     <xsl:value-of select="'Event'" /> 
    </xsl:when> 
    <xsl:otherwise> 
     <xsl:value-of select="'News'" /> 
    </xsl:otherwise> 
   </xsl:choose> 
  </xsl:variable>
  <li class="{$Class}">
   <a title="{@nodeName}" href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">
    <strong><xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/></strong><br/>
    <xsl:if test="./@updateDate !=''">    
     <em><xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:FormatDateTime(./@updateDate, 'd. MMMM yyyy, ')"/></em>
    </xsl:if> <xsl:value-of select="@writerName"/>
   </a>
  </li>
 </xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</ul>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>