Ahhhh I'm with you!  Awesome I'll give it a crack now..  Yet another Guinness I owe you ;)

Damn that should read

This GetXmlNodeByXPath just doesn't work!  I have changed it to full xpath like so (No edit button lol)

Sorry... The error is exactly the same as the top one :(

I haven't used it before, but I have a wild guess:

contains(./@nodeName, $thesearch)] --> that's a function right?

Lee, sorry that it's frustrating you... it will all make sense at some point (honest, I hope).

The problem with your revised xpath is that it's got "$currentPage" in there now.  Again, the GetNodeByXPath() has no context of $currentPage (same as the XSLT extensions) - so throws the error.

I do think what you are after ... and a few other people would find useful - is a node-set filter ... so you can pass in a node-set and an XPath query, and get back what you need.  I think this is what Doug showed you last time - but would be good if it was available in umbraco.library.

Cheers, (the other) Lee

Hey Lee - Don't apologise dude, you have been a great help :)

I did blog the function Doug and his wife sorted for me (http://www.blogfodder.co.uk/post/Building-Up-A-String-XPath-Statement-In-XSLT.aspx) but as that function was there I was determined to get the bloody thing to work for my own sanity! (But failed so far ... lol)

I have left it for the mo, and will attack it tomorrow with a fresh head :)

Just make life easier, use LINQ!

Hehe, sorry, I'm a .NET / LINQ addict :P

To be honest I have been looking into that, I started to watch aarons screen casts and signed up for TekPub - Where Justin Etheridge has started a Linq series :)

Hi Lee,

I've got a yet-to-be-released upcoming version of XML Dump with a crude implementation of an 'xpath' option that uses the GetXmlNodeByXPath() function - so, yes, I have actually been able to get that darned function working :-)

/Chriztian 

Hi Lee

The GetXmlNodeByXpath acutally runs an xpath query on the root of the umbraco xml content (umbraco.config), so you cannot pass variable name in your xpath statement, since the transformation done by GetXmlNodeByXPath has no access to the values in these variables when running the query.

So you need to output the values of your variables into the xpath string you're building, and do away with the $currentPage

In the code below I've replaced the GetXmlNodeById with the "//descendant::node[@id='1105']" which finds any descendant below the root node with id=1105, and I've concatenated the variable values into the xpath variable:

<xsl:variable name="myxpath">
    <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="string($thesearch) != ''">
            <xsl:text>//descendant::node[@id='1105']/descendant::node[@nodeTypeAlias='</xsl:text>
            <xsl:value-of select="string($documentTypeAlias)" />
            <xsl:text>' and contains(./@nodeName, '</xsl:text>
            <xsl:value-of select="string($thesearch)" />
            <xsl:text>')]</xsl:text>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>
            <xsl:text>//descendant::node[@id='1105']/descendant::node[@nodeTypeAlias='</xsl:text>
            <xsl:value-of select="string($documentTypeAlias)" />
            <xsl:text>']</xsl:text>
        </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
</xsl:variable>

That should do the trick, but you might want to check that your xpath statement actually is correct, by outputting it to your code with a

<xsl:copy-of select="$myxpath" />

Before inserting it into the GetXmlNodeByXPath method.

Regards
Jesper Hauge

Hi again

Just had to append this:

I think you're making it harder to solve the problem by using GetXmlNodeByXPath here, if you just want a node set from the xpath you were building, I think this would be simpler:

<xsl:variable name="documentType" select="'textPage'" />
<xsl:variable name="theSearch" select="'mystring'" />
<xsl:variable name="resultNodes">
    <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="string($theSearch) != ''">
            <xsl:copy-of select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById('1105')/descendant::node[@nodeTypeAlias=$documentType and contains(./@nodeName, $theSearch)]" />
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>
            <xsl:copy-of select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById('1105')/descendant::node[@nodeTypeAlias=$documentType]" />
        </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
</xsl:variable>

Regards
Jesper Hauge

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