Hello,

I have a problem which has me tearing my hair out! I am using an XSLT macro to generate a navigation menu which seemed to be working fine until now:

<?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"
exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library">

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

<xsl:param name="currentPage"/>
<xsl:param name="maxDeep" select="99"/>
<!-- Input the documenttype you want here -->
<xsl:variable name="documentTypeAlias" select="string('Category Home Page')"/>
<!-- Change this to root menu node - ie Home -->
<xsl:variable name="source" select="1046"/>

<xsl:template match="/">

<xsl:call-template name="drawNodes">
 <xsl:with-param name="parent" select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($source)"/>
</xsl:call-template>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="drawNodes">
  <xsl:param name="parent"/>
  <xsl:param name="startLevel" select="$parent/@level" />

<xsl:choose>

 <xsl:when test="($parent/@level - $startLevel) = 0">

  <div id="smoothmenu1" class="ddsmoothmenu">
     <ul id="toplevel">
          <xsl:for-each select="$parent/node [@nodeTypeAlias = $documentTypeAlias and string(data [@alias='umbracoNaviHide']) != '1']">
               <li>
                    <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}" class="topitem">
                       <xsl:element name="img">
                            <xsl:attribute name="src">
                              <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:GetMedia(./data [@alias='menuImage'], 'false')/data [@alias = 'umbracoFile']"/>
                           </xsl:attribute>
                            <xsl:attribute name="onmouseover">
                              this.src="<xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:GetMedia(./data [@alias='menuImageHover'], 'false')/data [@alias = 'umbracoFile']"/>"
                           </xsl:attribute>
                            <xsl:attribute name="onmouseout">
                               this.src="<xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:GetMedia(./data [@alias='menuImage'], 'false')/data [@alias = 'umbracoFile']"/>"
                            </xsl:attribute>
                        </xsl:element>
                  </a>

                  <!-- recursive calling of same template for childs -->
                  <xsl:if test="count(./descendant::node) > 0 and (./@level - $startLevel) &lt; $maxDeep">
                     <xsl:call-template name="drawNodes">
                            <xsl:with-param name="parent" select="."/>
                          <xsl:with-param name="startLevel" select="$startLevel"/>
                        </xsl:call-template>
                    </xsl:if>
               </li>
               
          </xsl:for-each>
     </ul>

 </div>

    </xsl:when>

   <xsl:otherwise>
     <ul class="submenu">
            <xsl:for-each select="$parent/node">
                <li>
                    <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}" class="subitem">
                       <xsl:if test="position() != last()">
                            <xsl:attribute name="style">border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;</xsl:attribute>
                     </xsl:if>
                       <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/>
                  </a>

                  <!-- recursive calling of same template for childs -->
                  <xsl:if test="count(./descendant::node) > 0 and (./@level - $startLevel) &lt; $maxDeep">
                     <xsl:call-template name="drawNodes">
                            <xsl:with-param name="parent" select="."/>
                          <xsl:with-param name="startLevel" select="$startLevel"/>
                        </xsl:call-template>
                    </xsl:if>
               </li>
           </xsl:for-each>
     </ul>

 </xsl:otherwise>

</xsl:choose>

</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet> 

I tested that this worked by checking the Hide Page? (umbracoNaviHide) checkbox on a few of the nodes and they duly did not appear in the menu. Good. The problem then, is that after unchecking the box for these nodes, they do not reappear in the menu!! I have cleared caches and republished the entire site. I have even deleted the nodes and recreated them with the same result. I have also deleted and recreated the macro. When I check the umbraco.config file, the nodes that are not appearing DO NOT have a value for umbracoNaviHide:

        <data alias="metaDescription"><![CDATA[]]></data>
        <data alias="metaKeywords"><![CDATA[]]></data>
        <data alias="contentStrapline"><![CDATA[]]></data>
        <data alias="bodyText"><![CDATA[]]></data>
        <data alias="umbracoNaviHide">
        </data>

What can I do to resolve this? Please help.

I am using umbraco v 4.0.2.1 (Assembly version: 1.0.3441.17657)

Many thanks,

Olly