Hi Kent,

You can use the <xsl:choose> element. For example:

<xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="string(data[@alias='titleColorPicker']) != ''">
        <xsl:value-of select="data[@alias='titleColorPicker']" />
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:text>default value</xsl:text>
    </xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>

It's similar logic to an if/else statement (in procedural programming), but you can have multiple <xsl:when> conditions in the same <xsl:choose>.

Good luck, Lee.

Thanks, Lee!  I'll give that a shot!

I think I want to change the logic a bit and just put the value of the drop down list as the ID in the div statement.  I'm having a bit of trouble with this.  For example, the property is named titleColor (it's a custom DDL), but this doens't work.

<div class="grid_12" id="{data[@alias = 'titleColor']}">

Any ideas?

Thanks!

--Kent

Hi Kent

Try something like this:

<div class="grid_12">
    <xsl:attribute name="id"><xsl:value-of select="$currentPage/data[@alias='titleColor']" /></xsl:attribute>

</div>

Hope this makes sense to you.

/Kim A

Hi Kent, you should be able to add an id attribute like this:

<div class="grid_12">
<xsl:attribute name="id">
       <xsl:value-of select="data[@alias='titleColorPicker']" />
</xsl:attribute>

BTW: xsl:if is also available...

I appreciate all the help, but still having trouble.  I've tried:

<div class="grid_12">
    <xsl:attribute name="id"><xsl:value-of select="$currentPage/data[@alias='titleColorPick']" /></xsl:attribute>
</div>

and

<div class="grid_12">
<xsl:attribute name="id">
       <xsl:value-of select="data[@alias='titleColorPick']" />
</xsl:attribute>

But both approaches still end up with an empty value in the ID tag:

<div class="grid_12" id="" />

I have verified the name of the property is now titleColorPick (changed it to something different from the XSLT file name, and also verified that the current page has a value set.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

--Kent

It's another problem

http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/how-tos/xslt-useful-tips-and-snippets/stop-html-tags-from-self-closing

Petr

I checked that link, Petr, but it doesn't seem to apply.  Here's the code that I have for the titleColorPick:

<xsl:template match="/">
<!-- start writing XSLT -->
<div class="grid_12"><xsl:attribute name="id"><xsl:value-of select="data[@alias='titleColorPick']" /></xsl:attribute></div>
</xsl:template>

Hi Kent,

I'm pretty sure Petr is on the right line of thinking here.  Try this modified XSLT:

<xsl:template match="/">
    <div class="grid_12">
        <xsl:attribute name="id">
            <xsl:value-of select="data[@alias='titleColorPick']" />
        </xsl:attribute>
        <xsl:comment><![CDATA[.]]></xsl:comment>
    </div>
</xsl:template>

The problem with empty tags self-closing is that they have no text/content ... hence they self-close.  So if you add a HTML comment in there - then it wont self-close ... and you wont see any visible difference on the rendered webpage in your browser.

If that doesn't work, then it might be worthwhile posting your entire XSLT? - so that we can get a better understanding of how to solve your problem.

Cheers, Lee.

Here's the result from your code, Lee:

<!-- Start Title -->
<div class="grid_12" id=""><!--.--></div>
<!-- End Title -->

Here's the items from the custom drop down list - could it be something from the datatype configuration?

Date Integer Ntext Nvarchar

Here's the full XSLT:

<?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" 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" 
 exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library Exslt.ExsltCommon Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes Exslt.ExsltMath Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions Exslt.ExsltStrings Exslt.ExsltSets ">

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

<xsl:param name="currentPage"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
<div class="grid_12">
<xsl:attribute name="id">
<xsl:value-of select="data[@alias='titleColorPick']" />
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:comment><![CDATA[.]]></xsl:comment>
</div></xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

I think that you should have a $currentPage/ in front of your data[@alias......But you said that you had tried this or?

Otherwise, try to print the value out in a textarea, to make sure that there is a value in the field. Try this:

<textarea>
    <xsl:value-of select="$currentPage/data[@alias='titleColorPick']" />
</textarea>

Just to make sure. And by the way Kent, which version of Umbraco are you using?

/Kim A

That did it!  Thanks to all who helped!

--Kent

Perfect Kent. Remember to mark one of all the answers in this thread as the solution, so that people know that this issue har been solved :)

/Kim A

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