This is what I use to list the latest 3 blog posts. Of course you can change 3 to 1 ;)

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

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

<xsl:param name="currentPage"/>
<xsl:variable name="numberOfPosts" select="3"/>

<xsl:template match="/">

<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::node //node[@nodeTypeAlias = 'BlogPost']">
<xsl:sort select="@createDate" order="descending" />
    <xsl:if test="position() = 1">
   <h2>Latest blog posts</h2>
   </xsl:if>
   <xsl:if test="position() &lt;= $numberOfPosts">
     <p><a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}"><xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/></a></p>
  </xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>

</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Great, thank for the response! worked like a charm

This xslt is the very code I need for the same reason Evan noted. However, using the StarterKit Blog and 4.6.1, it doesn't work. What changes should I make to get it working?

Thanks!

It seems that this line:

  <xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::root//node [@nodeTypeAlias='BlogPost']">

Is failing to match anything. I do, however, have a doc type with an alias "BlogPost", what should I do?

Hi Kyle

Try creating a <textarea><xsl:copy-of select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::root//node [@nodeTypeAlias='BlogPost']" /></textarea> - does this return any XML at all?

I guess there perhaps is a problem with your match...

/Jan

Hi Kyle.

There's probably no match because this XSLT is meant to be used with the legacy XML schema. Try this instead:

<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::root//BlogPost">

Does that help?

/Kim A

Kim: did the trick; thanks!

Great to hear Kyle - You're welcome. I'm glad you got it working :)

Have a nice day!

/Kim A

D'oh! I obviously have not been fully waken when I answered earlier. You rock Kim! :-)

/Jan

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