Hi Anthony, you cannot reassign variables or parameters, but within the loop you can initialize a variable to the specified select, e.g. something like this:

<xsl:for-each ...>
  <xsl:variable name="LoopSelectedRegion" select="data [@alias ='region']"/>
  ...
</xsl:for-each>

>Tommy

ah ok, thanks for clearing that up. 

So, i'm not sure if i can achieve this with xslt. I need to get @alias ='region' of the previous item in the foreach. I see the preceeding axis is not supported yet. 

http://umbraco.org/documentation/books/xslt-basics/xpath-axes-and-their-shortcuts

Also i have an 'if statement' just  after my foreach so i don't alway want the preceeding items. Hmm,  usercontrol?

I think all the axis types are supported, they are just not in the book you linked to.

I don't know your current script, but maybe it could be possible to take the <xsl:if ... /> part out of it, and incorporate that part into your for-each xpath instead?

<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/../node [@nodeTypeAlias = 'Assets']/child::node [data [@alias ='region'] != $SelectedRegion]">
    <xsl:value-of select="data [@alias ='region']" />
</xsl:for-each>

Another approach would be do the loop recursively using the <xsl:call-template> tag.

cool, thank morten.

I didn't realise you could incorporate the if with the for each. Do you have any examples of <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> <xsl:call-template></span>

Thanks, Anthony

Anthony,

The sitemap xslt (which is available from the dropdown when creating an xslt) does have an example on how to use templates recursively.

(File on disk can be found at /umbraco/xslt/templates/Sitemap.xslt

Cheers,

/Dirk

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