Sorry forgot to add the imported files content.

<xsl:template match="foo">
    <xsl:param name="foo-param" />

    <xmp>
        <xsl:copy-of select="$foo-param" />
    </xmp>
</xsl:template>

You might be running into a problem that is detailed on the old forum. Basically, you'll have to save (in the Umbraco backend) the file that calls the import. So if you make any changes to format-video-list.xslt, you also have to save the xslt files that import this file.

I am have not yet tested this, but I'm assuming that you'll need to re-save ALL of the templates that call format-video-list.xslt because there is some compiling going on. 

If you could report back to see if you'd need to re-save all of the calling files that would be great, thanks!

I did read the old post and re-saved all the files but I am still having an issue. I added the following code to the XSLT that was trying to import the formatting of each nodes contents and it returned 1 ID which was the source ID:

<xsl:apply-imports />

Any other ideas?

Okay cool, I have it now, you're sending the node's value to your template, instead of the node's content, try changing it to this:

<xsl:with-param name="foo-param">
  <xsl:copy-of select=".">
</xsl:with-param>

Hi Daniel,

It seems you've missed an important piece of information regarding templates in XSLT: The match attribute specifies a pattern that should match a set of elements in the source XML, e.g. "data", "root/node" or "node[@nodeTypeAlias = 'Home']". When you specify "foo" as a match pattern, your template won't ever be instantiated because the Umbraco XML hasn't got a "foo" element (you're not using the 4.1beta2, are you?)

You can use a name attribute instead, and achieve the desired behaviour, but then you should use call-template instead of apply-templates on the calling end.

So let's try both - first using what I think you were aiming for:

Template in "format-video-list.xslt" (note I use the name attribute):

<xsl:template name="foo">
    <xsl:param name="foo-param" />

    <xmp>
        <xsl:copy-of select="$foo-param" />
    </xmp>
</xsl:template>

You should do this in the importing file:

<xsl:variable name="nodeContainer" select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($source)" />
<xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:for-each select="$nodeContainer/node[not(data[@alias = 'umbracoNaviHide'] = 1)]">
        <xsl:call-template name="foo">
            <xsl:with-param name="foo-param" select="." />
        </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

Now, let's try it the other way:

Template in "format-video-list.xslt":

<xsl:template match="node">
    <xmp>
        <xsl:copy-of select="." />
    </xmp>
</xsl:template>

and then in the file that imports it, you can just do this:

<xsl:variable name="nodeContainer" select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($source)" />

<xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="$nodeContainer/node[not(data[@alias = 'umbracoNaviHide'] = 1)]" />
</xsl:template>

/Chriztian

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