The News and Quotes node are at same level.

Hi, for the random node, it's simple :

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


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

<xsl:param name="currentPage"/>
    

<xsl:template match="/">

<!-- start writing XSLT -->
<xsl:variable name="randomNode" select="/macro/randomNode/node"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$randomNode/data[@alias = 'quoteName']" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
<p><xsl:value-of select="$randomNode/data[@alias = 'quoteText']" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
</p>


</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

For the macro, you name the parameter alias randomNode and choose contentRandom as type.

I have wrote the following in my XSLT:

<xsl:template match="/">

<!-- start writing XSLT -->
  <xsl:variable name="randomNode" select="/macro/randomNode/*"/>
  <xsl:value-of select="$randomNode/quoteName" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
<p><xsl:value-of select="$randomNode/quote" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
</p>


</xsl:template>

and added a parameter with alias randomNode to the macro, but it doesn't seem to give a output. I'm using Umbraco 4.7 with the new xml schema .. I have tried with /macro/randomNode/* [@isDoc] too, but doesn't work .

Is something missing?

Hi Sebastian

Thank you so much for your input :)
Just what I needed... it now works perfectly as intended.

Your code works, just my Master doc types actually is called MainMaster.

<?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:umb="urn:umbraco.library"
        xmlns:emath="urn:Exslt.ExsltMath"
        exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umb emath ">

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

        <xsl:param name="currentPage"/>
        <xsl:variable name="random" select="floor(emath:random() * count($currentPage/ancestor-or-self::MainMaster/descendant-or-self::Quote)) + 1"/>

        <xsl:template match="/">
         <xsl:apply-templates select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::MainMaster/descendant-or-self::Quote[$random]" />
        </xsl:template>

        <xsl:template match="Quote">
                <div id="randquote">
                        <xsl:apply-templates select="quoteText[normalize-space()]" />
                        <xsl:apply-templates select="quoteName[normalize-space()]" />
                </div>
        </xsl:template>
        
        <xsl:template match="quoteText">
                <p>
                        <xsl:value-of select="." />
                </p>
        </xsl:template>
          
        <xsl:template match="quoteName">
                <b>
                        <xsl:value-of select="." />
                </b>
        </xsl:template>
        
  
</xsl:stylesheet>

So if you take a look at the temporary url here: http://d22299829.u330.surftown.dk/da/ydelser.aspx , then the quote in the left sidebar on subpages change when you refresh the page or go to another page..

Once again I appreciate your help..

- Bjarne

Hi Sebastian

Would you mind sharing this in the wiki if it does not already exist in there? Nice solution indeed :-)

/Jan

@Jan and @Bjarne

Here you go: http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/how-tos/xslt-useful-tips-and-snippets/xslt-getting-a-random-document-when-the-page-reloads

I've optimized it a bit using root instead of the MainMaster doctype.

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