The site im working on, has a simple slider on the frontpage, thats supposed to list five random company profiles.

Right now its wired up but only shows hard-coded information.

This is the short version of the current xslt file: (short as in, ive cut it down to just one hard-coded element)

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


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

<xsl:param name="currentPage"/>

<xsl:template match="/">

<!-- start writing XSLT -->

 <div class="g640p10" style="position:relative;">
   <h4><a href="/karriere/virksomhedsprofiler" title="Virksomhedsprofiler" class="purple">Virksomhedsprofiler</a></h4>
     
       <ul id="vpSlider">
      <li><img class="vpSliderImg" src="http://placehold.it/425x250g"
      width="425" height="250" alt="" />
      <img src="http://placehold.it/125x70g" width="125" height="70" />
      <h2>NAME HERE</h2>
      <p>Excerpt from text</p>
      <p><a hreh="#" title="Read more">Read more...</a></p>
      </li>
          
    </ul>  

       <div id="vpSliderPager"><xsl:value-of select="normalize-space('')"/></div>     
     </div>
 
  
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Ive searched around for getting random nodes, so i got the general gist of it, but here comes the twist.

Each company profile, is made up of one document template, but has six sub documents, that are made as tabs, and the information is spread all over those documents.

So, not only do i need to pick five random (of course without the possibilty of the same shown twice), which by itself is relatively easy, i have to somehow get the information from its sub nodes. (im still learning the umbraco jargon, forgive me if i confuse you).

Main
-Section 1
--Sub-Section
---Company profiles
----Example company
------- Tab 1
------- Tab 2
------- Tab 3
------- Tab 4
------- Tab 5

Getting information from one document type, or node so to speak, is easy enough, but the information is spread over those nodes that act as its tabs.

Hope it helps a tiny bit.If you need any other information, please ask, and sadly, the Edit function doesnt work correctly here as im sure i want to add something after i clicked Submit.