Hi Martin,

The XPaths you've supplied does in fact select "everything around me", so that's probably why it happens.

Start by creating a siteRoot variable after currentPage - this one should go up to the level of your site's Home node (usually @level=1):

<xsl:variable name="siteRoot" select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::*[@level = 1]" />

Now, create another variable that selects from the $siteRoot variable, grabbing the "year" nodes, e.g.:

<xsl:variable name="years" select="$siteRoot/*[@nodeName = 'News']/*[@isDoc]" />

(Remember to tweak the path - here, I'm guessing there's a node called 'News' and that the children of that are the Year folders.)

Now you're ready to start the for-each:

<xsl:for-each select="$years">
   ...
</xsl:for-each>

/Chriztian

Thanks Christian, 

Im getting the year and month output, but the months are repeating under each of the years. 

<xsl:variable name="siteRoot" select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::*[@level = 1]" />
<xsl:variable name="years" select="$siteRoot/*[@nodeName = 'News Archive']/*[@isDoc]" />
<xsl:variable name="months" select="$siteRoot/*[@nodeName = 'News Archive']/DateFolder/*[@isDoc]" />
<xsl:variable name="newsItem" select="$siteRoot/*[@nodeName = 'News Archive']/DateFolder/DateFolder/*[@isDoc]" />  

    <xsl:template match="/">
 <ul> 
   <xsl:for-each select="$years">
    <li class="years"> 
       <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/>
       <ul> 
         <xsl:for-each select="$months">
          <li class="months">
            <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">  
              <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/>
            </a>
          </li>  
        </xsl:for-each>
       </ul>
    </li>  
  </xsl:for-each>
 </ul>
</xsl:template>

Ah, Thanks Chriztian,

I see it now.

Thanks again.

Hi Chriztian,

The DateFolders package im using automatically names the folders as numbers.

Is there any way to change the node name into a months?

Thanks

Martin

Hi Martin,

You just mean to display the monthname, right? (As opposed to renaming the actual folders in the backoffice).

Do you have multiple languages in the site so you need to supply the names in more than one language?

/Chriztian

Hi, 

Im fine with just renaming the months as the appear on the site.

Its only in English.

Hi Martin,

Then I'd just create a lookup variable with the names and pick from that one using the @nodeName index - like this:

<!-- Lookup variable -->
<xsl:variable name="monthNamesProxy">
    <month>January</month>
    <month>February</month>
    <month>March</month>
    <month>April</month>
    <month>May</month>
    <month>June</month>
    <month>July</month>
    <month>August</month>
    <month>September</month>
    <month>November</month>
    <month>December</month>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="monthNames" select="msxsl:node-set($monthNamesProxy)/month" />

<!-- Generic template to output monthname -->
<xsl:template match="*" mode="monthname">
    <xsl:value-of select="$monthNames[position() = current()/@nodeName]" />
</xsl:template>

...

<xsl:for-each select="*[@isDoc]"><!-- Children of the current year are months, right? -->
    <li class="months">
        <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">
<!-- Output monthname instead of @nodeName --> 
            <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="monthname" />
        </a>
    </li>  
</xsl:for-each>

/Chriztian 

Thanks Chriztian.

There was a typo with the "msxsl" that threw me for a second.

But thanks again.

Sorry, ive got a sort issue with my DateFolders now.

I have a datepicker field attached to my NewsItem doctype. This date picker called startDate is used to override the createDate and places the news items in a chosen folder.

Im struggling to sort my Datefolders based on the the startDate field.

Any help would be grateful.

Martin

<xsl:variable name="siteRoot" select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::*[@level = 1]" />
<xsl:variable name="years" select="$siteRoot/*[@nodeName = 'News Archive']/*[@isDoc]" />


<!-- Lookup variable -->
<xsl:variable name="monthNamesProxy">
  <month>January</month>
  <month>February</month>
  <month>March</month>
  <month>April</month>
  <month>May</month>
  <month>June</month>
  <month>July</month>
  <month>August</month>
  <month>September</month>
  <month>November</month>
  <month>December</month>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="monthNames" select="msxml:node-set($monthNamesProxy)/month" />

<!-- Generic template to output monthname -->
<xsl:template match="*" mode="monthname">
  <xsl:value-of select="$monthNames[position() = current()/@nodeName]" />
</xsl:template>  
    
<xsl:template match="/"> 
  <div class="four panels alpha">
    <h4>../News Archive</h4>  
    <ul class="archive"> 
    <xsl:for-each select="$years">
      <xsl:sort select="$years" data-type="number"  order="descending"/>
      <li class="years"> 
        <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/>
        <ul>
          <xsl:for-each select="*[@isDoc]"><!-- Children of the current year are months, right? -->
          <li class="months">
            <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">
            <!-- Output monthname instead of @nodeName --> 
            <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="monthname" /> |          
            </a>
          </li>  
          </xsl:for-each>
        </ul>
      </li>  
      </xsl:for-each>
    </ul>
  </div>  

</xsl:template> 

Hi Martin,

What do you need to sort? Isn't that what the DateFolder package does for you?

Anyway - you can use this sort instruction inside a for-each to sort on the newsDate property of whichever nodes are being iterated:

<xsl:sort select="newsDate" data-type="text" order="descending" />

/Chriztian

PS: You should consider creating new threads - it can be hard to find solutions to specific topics, if some of them are "hidden" in the comments of another topic.

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