I'm not sure if I should try this in razor instead, but I think it should definitely be possible in XSLT.
My site has a dynamic navigation, but this needs to be grouped for display purpses. I have added a numberic property to the document type called navGroup which allows me to group pages into navigation groups - same number = same group
I basically want to produce 4x ul li lists one after the other - one for each navigation group.
The site was originally implemented in raw .Net and parsed an XML file with the navigation structure in, so this wasn't an issue.
I am now porting the site to umbraco and need to re-create this effect. I have used the CogWorks nav Macro/XSLT package so far and have it doing enough to play with initially.
I don't need to do anything fancy such as highlight the current page - just output a link and a string from the associated page.
Having inspected more closely, I don't think this is strictly necessary now. (Sorry). I think I can customise the output of the Cog Works XSLT to give the format of ul and li's I need to get the desired result.
Grouped Navigation
I'm not sure if I should try this in razor instead, but I think it should definitely be possible in XSLT.
My site has a dynamic navigation, but this needs to be grouped for display purpses. I have added a numberic property to the document type called navGroup which allows me to group pages into navigation groups - same number = same group
I basically want to produce 4x ul li lists one after the other - one for each navigation group.
The site was originally implemented in raw .Net and parsed an XML file with the navigation structure in, so this wasn't an issue.
I am now porting the site to umbraco and need to re-create this effect. I have used the CogWorks nav Macro/XSLT package so far and have it doing enough to play with initially.
I don't need to do anything fancy such as highlight the current page - just output a link and a string from the associated page.
Please help!
Having inspected more closely, I don't think this is strictly necessary now. (Sorry). I think I can customise the output of the Cog Works XSLT to give the format of ul and li's I need to get the desired result.
Hi Adrian,
If you've only got 4 groups, I'd definitely go for the simple approach - along the lines of:
<xsl:param name="currentPage" /> <xsl:variable name="siteRoot" select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::*[@level = 1]" /> <xsl:template match="/"> <ul> <xsl:apply-templates select="$siteRoot/*[@isDoc][navGroup = 1]" /> </ul> <ul> <xsl:apply-templates select="$siteRoot/*[@isDoc][navGroup = 3]" /> </ul> <ul> <xsl:apply-templates select="$siteRoot/*[@isDoc][navGroup = 4]" /> </ul> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="*[@isDoc]"> <li><xsl:value-of select="@nodeName" /></li> </xsl:template>/Chriztian
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