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F 19 posts 39 karma points

Aug 02, 2011 @ 10:20

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Problem understanding and using "$currentPage"

Hello,

I have the folowing structure for my website :

+Home
+Blog1
+Post1
+Post2
+Blog2
+Post1
+Post2
+Page1

On Page1 I'm trying to retrieve informations about Blog1 and blog2, but here is a strange thing :

$currentPage/@level gets me "2", which is normal (level 2 page)

BUT

$currentPage/ancestor-or-self, or $currentPage/parent, or even $currentPage/self get me nothing.

Is there anything I'm doing wrong?

Thank you,

F

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Fuji Kusaka 2203 posts 4220 karma points

Aug 02, 2011 @ 10:35
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Hi there,

Basically the currentPage variable contains all the xml from node where your XSLT is being executed and its child elements such as when you make use of ancestors etc.

I think this might work for you though
```
<xsl:value-of select="$currentPage/parent::node/data[@alias=information]" />
```
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F 19 posts 39 karma points

Aug 02, 2011 @ 12:17

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Hello,

thank you for your email, the code you gave me doesn't work for me, but at least, i got some understanding of what info is in "currentPage".

I believe either there's something wrong in my code, or maybe the way my nodes are configured? Maybe I miss a reserence or something?

Anyway, here is my code (sorry, I don't know the tags to separate the code from the rest of the post) :

EDIT : any code I post is unreadable, what tags should I use? I tried [code][/code]

Thank you for your help,

F

EDIT : this seems to work :

Now i'm glad I got it to work, but this is mere copy/paste from the siteMap macro. Can anyone take some time to explain a newbie why this syntax works and not the others I used?

Thanks,

F

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praveity 100 posts 125 karma points

Aug 04, 2011 @ 14:07

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Hi F (unique name) :)

I am considering you are using, umbraco version above 4.5 (which uses new schema) and Page1 and Blog1 are different doc type.

Replace the BlogDocTypeAliasName with the actual blog doc-type alias name..

<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::BlogDocTypeAliasName[@isDoc and @level = 2]">

<xsl:value-of select="."/>

</xsl:for-each>

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F 19 posts 39 karma points

Aug 09, 2011 @ 10:56

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Thanks,

That works well, and helped me understand how to getto blogPost, or any other type of content for that matter.

Thanks again,
F.

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