One simple Google search gives you the answer:

http://our.umbraco.org/forum/developers/api-questions/5442-Custom-DDL-DataType-prevalues---text-and-value#comment19835

I don't think it's possible with XSLT though, but .NET is great(er)! ;-)

Here's a quick (and dirty) example of how to get prevalues loaded in a control. 

                string xmlStr = "";
                XPathNodeIterator xpathIterator = umbraco.library.GetPreValues([id of DT]);
                foreach (XPathNavigator n in xpathIterator)
                {
                    xmlStr = n.OuterXml;
                }
                var x = new XmlDocument();
                x.LoadXml(xmlStr);
                XmlNodeList nl = x.SelectNodes("//preValues/preValue");
                try {
                    foreach (XmlNode xn in nl)
                    {
                        var li = new ListItem(xn.InnerText, xn.Attributes["id"].Value);
                        YourControlId.Items.Add(li);
                    }
                } catch (Exception ex){}

So, just replace the [id of DT] with the ID of the data type that you created (or are targeting), and the 'YourControlId' with the control in your Usercontrol. 

NOTE: it's not ideal to hard code ID's like this, but you could easily put that into a config file so that it is not compiled. 

That should do it!

-- Nik

In Xslt it would be something like this:

<xsl:for-each select="umbraco.library:GetPreValues($idOfDataType)//preValue">
    <xsl:value-of select="." /><br/>
</xsl:for-each>

Here's a good post by Lee

http://www.blogfodder.co.uk/post/Getting-Dropdown-List-DataType-Values-In-Your-HTML.aspx

I continue to be amazed at how great this forum is.

THANKS TO ALL of you for ALL being right.  Jonas I had your code working in less than a minute.

One more XSLT question though.  When you're doing a search form using contains(), how can you print out a message ("Sorry, your search turned up no results.") since there is no such thing as an <xsl:else>?  In other words, in order to DO the search, I need to be in a <xsl:for-each> loop, so if I use when (contains())/otherwise then the message prints out for every iteration of the loop.  And I know that <xsl:variable> can't be reset from an initial value.  What's the best way to know at the end of this loop that contains() was never true? That nothing was found?

Cheers,

Garrett

Hi Garrett

I've used something like the following in the past - basically its

• Build up a variable with xml nodes of matched results
• use msxml:node-set to make it traversable in xslt
• Count results

Like the following stripped-down example

<xsl:variable name="searchResults">
    <xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::node[@level=2]/data[@alias='SOMEALIAS']/descendant::node">

       <xsl:if test="contains(current()/data[@alias='testThis'], 'SEARCH TERM'">
           <xsl:copy-of select="current()" />                
      </xsl:if>     
          
  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:variable>



<xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="count(msxml:node-set($searchResults)/node) = 0">
        <xsl:text>No results</xsl:text>
   </xsl:when>
 <xsl:otherwise>
     <xsl:text>We got results</xsl:text>
   </xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>

Hope this helps,
Dan

Thanks as always, @dandrayne-- this works great.  One further question though.  In order to display the results, inside the <xsl:otherwise>, I assume I have to do the loop again? Or is there a way to use the $searchResults variable?

Regards,

Garrett

Never mind, Dan-- I figured that out:

<xsl:for-each select="msxml:node-set($searchResults)/node">

//Garrett

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