Hi Jacob,

A couple of quick thoughts:

• If all show types have some kind of wrapper doctype, you could put the "Show # of items in list" as a property on that.. ? (So the XSLT could just look it up for each of the separate types)
• I would seriously consider writing an extension to do the filtering - it gets messy really fast; it's not impossible, but it's really the wrong place to do it, I think.

Main problem is that the only way to get "the first X nodes" of a set that's also being sorted, is this pattern:

<xsl:for-each select="$nodes">
    <xsl:sort select="dateProperty" data-type="text" order="descending" />
    <xsl:if test="position() &lt;= 2">
        <!-- Do something -->
    </xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>

- so writing an extension to do the sorting, would make it a lot simpler - e.g.:

<xsl:apply-templates select="$sortedNodes[position() &lt;= 2]" />

/Chriztian

Hi Chriztian,

Yeah, all the show doctypes have a great-great-great-great-grandparent of doctype program (shows are in date folders).

Hmmm, that's interesting. A property on the program docType....

When you refer to extension, do you mean like this?

Here's what I got so far..a little tedious as have to create a variable for each program that I want in my list. But I can control the number of items individually.

    <?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:make="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:SqlHelper="urn:SqlHelper" xmlns:umbraco.contour="urn:umbraco.contour" xmlns:tags="urn:tags" 
    exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library Exslt.ExsltCommon Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes Exslt.ExsltMath Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions Exslt.ExsltStrings Exslt.ExsltSets SqlHelper umbraco.contour tags ">


<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
<xsl:include href="cprGetPrimaryImage.xslt" />


<xsl:param name="currentPage"/>

    <!-- MMBP --> 
    <xsl:variable name="MMBP" select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById(1265)//show[archiveDate != '']" />
    <!-- BDJ --> 
    <xsl:variable name="BDJ" select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById(1266)//show[archiveDate != '']" />


    <xsl:variable name="latestProxy">
        <!-- Loop taglists defined above, -->

        <xsl:for-each select="$MMBP" >
                <!-- sorted by displayDate (latest first) -->
                <xsl:sort select="@displayDate" data-type="text" order="descending" />
                <!-- grab the first one's `@id` -->
                <xsl:if test="position() = 1">
                <node id="{@id}" />
                </xsl:if>
        </xsl:for-each>

        <xsl:for-each select="$BDJ" >
                <!-- sorted by displayDate (latest first) -->
                <xsl:sort select="@displayDate" data-type="text" order="descending" />
                <!-- grab the first one's `@id` -->
                <xsl:if test="position() = 1">
            <node id="{@id}" />
                </xsl:if>
        </xsl:for-each>

    </xsl:variable>

    <!-- Create an XPath-navigable version of that set -->
    <xsl:variable name="latest" select="make:node-set($latestProxy)" />



<xsl:template match="/">

    <xsl:for-each select="$latest/node">
        <xsl:variable name="taggedNode" select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById(@id)" />

        <div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-6 latest-story-by-tag">
        <div class="image-content-box">

        <!-- Related Image --> 
        <a class="image" href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl($taggedNode/@id)}">
        <xsl:call-template name="getprimaryimage">
           <xsl:with-param name="nodeid" select="$taggedNode/@id" />
           <xsl:with-param name="imagetype" select="'imageRStoryRelated'" />
        </xsl:call-template>
        </a>

        <div class="post-text">

        <!-- Link To Show With Program Name Link Text --> 
        <a><xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:NiceUrl($taggedNode/@id)" /></xsl:attribute>
        <h1><xsl:value-of select="$taggedNode/../../../../@nodeName" /></h1>
        </a>

        <!-- Show Date -->
        <p><xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:FormatDateTime($taggedNode/displayDate, 'dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy')" /></p>

        </div> <!--/.post-text -->

        </div></div>
    </xsl:for-each>


</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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