The solution:

    <ul>
      <xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::node [count(data[@alias='relatedLinks']/links/link)&gt; 0] [1] /data[@alias='relatedLinks']/links/link">
        <li>
          <xsl:element name="a">
            <xsl:if test="./@newwindow = '1'">
              <xsl:attribute name="target">_blank</xsl:attribute>
            </xsl:if>
            <xsl:choose>
              <xsl:when test="./@type = 'external'">
                <xsl:attribute name="href">
                  <xsl:value-of select="./@link"/>
                </xsl:attribute>
              </xsl:when>
              <xsl:otherwise>
                <xsl:attribute name="href">
                  <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:NiceUrl(./@link)"/>
                </xsl:attribute>
              </xsl:otherwise>
            </xsl:choose>
            <xsl:value-of select="./@title"/>
          </xsl:element>
        </li>
      </xsl:for-each>
    </ul>

I am trying to port this to the 4.5.x xml schema, but I can't get it to work. 

Here is the changed foreach part:

 <xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::* [name() = $propertyAlias and not(@isDoc)]/links/link"> 
     

What am i doing wrong?

Works for me (rl is my propertyname...testsite ;)  ) :

<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::CWS_Home/descendant::*[ count(rl/links/link) > 0]/rl/links/link">
<xsl:value-of select="@title"/><br/>
</xsl:for-each>

Thanks, it's working in 4.5.2 for me.

I have the same problem in 4.6.1. I am creating several lists of links in my master template that need to be inherited sitewide. They show up on the first child template and stop there. I've tried above and no go. Any suggestions?

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


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

  <xsl:param name="currentPage"/>
  
  <!-- Input the related links property alias here -->
  <xsl:variable name="propertyAlias" select="string('maalgrupper')"/>
  
  <xsl:template match="/">

    <!-- The fun starts here -->
    <ul>
      <xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/* [name() = $propertyAlias and not(@isDoc)]/links/link">
        <li>
          <xsl:element name="a">
            <xsl:if test="./@newwindow = '1'">
              <xsl:attribute name="target">_blank</xsl:attribute>
            </xsl:if>
            <xsl:choose>
              <xsl:when test="./@type = 'external'">
                <xsl:attribute name="href">
                  <xsl:value-of select="./@link"/>
                </xsl:attribute>
              </xsl:when>
              <xsl:otherwise>
                <xsl:attribute name="href">
                  <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:NiceUrl(./@link)"/>
                </xsl:attribute>
              </xsl:otherwise>
            </xsl:choose>
            <xsl:value-of select="./@title"/>
          </xsl:element>
        </li>
      </xsl:for-each>
    </ul>

    <!-- Live Editing support for related links. -->
    <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:Item($currentPage/@id,$propertyAlias,'')" />

  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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