Hi Max,

Check this out - should be fairly self-explanatory - otherwise, just ask what's going on...

<xsl:variable name="root" select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::root" />

<!-- Input from somewhere... -->
<xsl:variable name="years" select="'2011,2010,2008'" />

<!-- Convert to nodes -->
<xsl:variable name="years-as-nodes" select="umbraco.library:Split($years, ',')" />

<!-- Process the year values -->
<xsl:apply-templates select="$years-as-nodes/value" />

<!-- Template for one year value -->
<xsl:template match="value">
    <section>
        <h1><xsl:value-of select="." /></h1>
        <!-- Process all Documents created this year -->
        <xsl:apply-templates select="$root//*[starts-with(@createDate, .)]" />
    </section>
</xsl:template>

<!-- Template for each matching Document -->
<xsl:template match="*[@isDoc]">
    <p>
        <xsl:value-of select="substring(@createDate, 1, 10)" />: <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName" />
    </p>
</xsl:template>

(If you know you only need to process one specific Document Type, substitute the name (alias) of that for the asterisks in the above code, to improve performance.)

/Chriztian

Hi Chriztian

I'd like to use this for a news archive page I've been putting off for a while but I don't understand what is happening in the last template. Could you shed any light on it?

Thanks, Eddy

This is the code I am working on at the mo:

<xsl:variable name="years" select="'2011,2010,2009'" />
<xsl:variable name="nodeID" select="1061" />
<xsl:variable name="root" select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::root" />
<!-- Convert to nodes -->
<xsl:variable name="years-as-nodes" select="umbraco.library:Split($years, ',')" />

  <!-- Process all the year nodes or values -->
    <xsl:template match="/">
      <xsl:apply-templates select="$years-as-nodes/value">
        <xsl:sort order="descending" />
      </xsl:apply-templates>
    </xsl:template>  
    
  <!-- Template for one year value -->
  <xsl:template match="value">
    <section>
      <h2>News from 
        <xsl:value-of select="." />
      </h2>
      <!-- Process all Documents created this year -->
      <ul>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="$root//*[starts-with(@createDate, .)]" />
      </ul>
    </section>
  </xsl:template>
  
  <!-- Template for each matching Document -->
  <xsl:template match="*[@isDoc]">
    <li>
     <xsl:value-of select="substring(@createDate, 1, 10)" />:
        <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">
        <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/>
      </a>
    </li>
  </xsl:template>  

Eddy

Thank you all it was very useful

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