Hope my topic makes a bit of sense.

Ok, the thing is, the site im working on as several sub sections, and those have sub sections as well.

-Main
---section1
......section1,1
......section1,2
---section2
......section2,1
---section3

Sorta like that. Each sub-sub section (like section1,2) has several articles/documents in them. Each section has their own unique document type, but they inherit from the same parent document.

In for example section 1, i have to make a list of all the newest articles in each sub section (section 1,1/1,2 etc.)

Now starts the hairy part, this is what ive come up with as of now:

<xsl:variable name="documentTypeAlias1" select="string('documentType1')"/>
<xsl:variable name="documentTypeAlias2" select="string('documentType2')"/>
<xsl:variable name="documentTypeAlias3" select="string('documentType3')"/>

<xsl:template match="/">

<ul>
<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/descendant::* [name() = $documentTypeAlias1 or name() = $documentTypeAlias2 and string(umbracoNaviHide) != '1']">
  <xsl:sort select="@updateDate" order="descending" />
  <li>
    <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">
      <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/>
      
      <xsl:if test="count(current()/outputPictures) > 0">
        <img src="/ImageGen.ashx?image={current()/outputPictures[position()=1]/DAMP[@fullMedia]/mediaItem/Image/umbracoFile}&amp;width=125&amp;height=70"
 width="125" height="70"/>
      </xsl:if>
      
    </a>
  </li>
</xsl:for-each>
</ul>

(the variable names are example names for the sake of this post, company policy you know)

This creates a list of the specified document types, orders them, then shows the first picture in its gallery as a thumbnail.

It works, somewhat, because first of all, its outright stupid doing it the way i am, storing document types in variables and stuffing them into the select, also it orders them by the document type, and not the speciefic documents updateDate. But i dont know of any other way.

Therefor, i thought it would be possible to just make it list ALL document types under that section and sub sections, inheriting from the parent document type. But i dont know how to.

I hope it makes sense, and maybe there is an entirely other method.