showing pictures using media picker and xslt

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Garry Bain 149 posts 124 karma points

Sep 08, 2009 @ 11:14
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Showing pictures using Media Picker and XSLT
Hello everyone,

I currently have an xslt file that shows a list of News Items - each news item has a media picker section that allows the user to "Choose" a photo to go with each article. I am struggling to show this picture and wondered if someone could point where my XSLT is going wrong: I tried this first:
```
<img alt="">
<xsl:attribute name="src">            
<xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:GetMedia(1313,false)/data [@alias = 'umbracoFile']"/> 
</xsl:attribute>
</img>
```
Which worked showing the same picture "ID of 1313" looping through each of the news items, but when I try to change this to choose each individual ID I don't get any errors, only the "Error reading xslt file" message on my page. This is what I tried:
```
<img alt="">
<xsl:attribute name="src">            
<xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:GetMedia(data [@alias = 'pic'],false())/data[@alias='umbracoFile']"/>
</xsl:attribute>
</img>
```
In my Document Types > Generic properties my Media Picker is called "pic" so I presume that's right - can anyone see where it's going wrong?

Cheers, Garry.
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dandrayne 1138 posts 2262 karma points

Sep 08, 2009 @ 11:32

I changed a few things

<xsl:if test="string(current()/data [@alias = 'pic']) != ''">
  <img alt="">
        <xsl:attribute name="src">
          <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:GetMedia(current()/data [@alias = 'pic'], 'false')/data [@alias = 'umbracoFile']"/>
       </xsl:attribute>
    </img>
</xsl:if>

* Added a check for image before trying to write it
* Slightly adjusted getmedia call

Give this a shot!
Dan

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Garry Bain 149 posts 124 karma points

Sep 08, 2009 @ 11:35

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Ahhh excellent worked great - it's been driving me mad because I'm not too good with XSLT but I could see everyone elses examples where pretty much the same. Thanks for the quick reply, Garry.

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dandrayne 1138 posts 2262 karma points

Sep 08, 2009 @ 12:00

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No worries, you'll get the hang of xslt and, if not love it, hate it just a little less ;-)

It's always good to put checks around anything that might blow up - getmedia is one of those things

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