I was thinking I was begining to understand Xslt but maybe I not.

Using Umbraco 4.7

I modifed the SiteMap Macro to display the data in a way I wanted.

<?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" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltCommon="urn:Exslt.ExsltCommon" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes="urn:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltMath="urn:Exslt.ExsltMath" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions="urn:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltStrings="urn:Exslt.ExsltStrings" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltSets="urn:Exslt.ExsltSets"
  exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library Exslt.ExsltCommon Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes Exslt.ExsltMath Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions Exslt.ExsltStrings Exslt.ExsltSets ">

<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

<xsl:param name="currentPage"/>

<!-- update this variable on how deep your site map should be -->
<xsl:variable name="maxLevelForSitemap" select="4"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
<div id="sitemap">
<xsl:call-template name="drawNodes">  
<xsl:with-param name="parent" select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::* [@isDoc and @level=1]"/>  
</xsl:call-template>
</div>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="drawNodes">
<xsl:param name="parent"/>
<xsl:if test="umbraco.library:IsProtected($parent/@id, $parent/@path) = 0 or (umbraco.library:IsProtected($parent/@id, $parent/@path) = 1 and umbraco.library:IsLoggedOn() = 1)">
<ul><xsl:for-each select="$parent/* [@isDoc  and @level &lt;= $maxLevelForSitemap]">
<li>  
<a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">
  <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/></a>
<xsl:if test="count(./* [@isDoc  and @level &lt;= $maxLevelForSitemap]) &gt; 0">   
<xsl:call-template name="drawNodes">    
<xsl:with-param name="parent" select="."/>    
</xsl:call-template>  
</xsl:if>
</li>
</xsl:for-each>
</ul>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

which works fine. but I don't want to use the nodeName but the pageTitle from the metatab and I know the field because the following macro in the master template put the pagetitle on the pages

<title><umbraco:Item field="Pagetitle" useIfEmpty="pageTitle" runat="server"></umbraco:Item></title>

but when I try to use it in the xlst codeI never get anything to display

<xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/></a>.I have tried replacing @nodeName with  @PageTitle, @pageTitle,  @data [@alias = 'pageTitle'] and just about anything else I seen in this forum, but nothing seems to work.

any clues?

Bruce