Hi Steve,

It's easiest to understand if you know how the XML looks - very condensed, a site looks like this:

<root>

    <Homepage id="1200" nodeName="Home" isDoc="">
        <bodyText></bodyText>

        <!-- Child pages -->
        <Textpage id="1201" nodeName="Page 1" isDoc="">
            <!-- Custom properties -->
            <header></header>
            <bodyText></bodyText>

            <!-- Child pages -->
            <Textpage id="1202" nodeName="Page 1, Sub 1" isDoc="">
                <!-- Custom properties -->
                <header></header>
                <bodyText></bodyText>
            </Textpage>           

        </Textpage>

        <Textpage id="1203" nodeName="Page 2">
            <!-- Custom properties -->
            <header></header>
            <bodyText></bodyText>
        </Textpage>

        <!-- Etc. -->

    </Homepage>
</root>

With XPath it's easy to select nodes by their element name (i.e. what Umbraco calls the "doctype alias") or by the value of an attribute, but XML doesn't have any way to distinguish between what Umbraco calls a "Document" and its properties, so Umbraco adds a special "isDoc" attribute to do that (it's always empty, but it's easy to test for, if you need to select multiple doctypes in a single selection).

Let's say $currentPage is "Home", then you can try all of these to get what you need:

<xsl:variable name="page1ById" select="$currentPage/*[@id = 1201]" />

<xsl:variable name="page1ByName" select="$currentPage/*[@isDoc][@nodeName = 'Page 1']" />

<xsl:variable name="page1ByPosition" select="$currentPage/Textpage[1]" />

<xsl:variable name="page1ByDoctypeAndName" select="$currentPage/Textpage[@nodeName = 'Page 1']" />

<xsl:variable name="allChildrenByDoctype" select="$currentPage/Textpage" />

<xsl:variable name="allDocumentChildren" select="$currentPage/*[@isDoc]" />

<xsl:variable name="allPropertiesOfPage2" select="$currentPage/Textpage[@nodeName = 'Page 2']/*[not(@isDoc)]" />

/Chriztian

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