Djan,

Sure we can help, can you post your xslt, so we can chime in on that?

Cheers,

/Dirk

This is my umbNewsListItems

xsl:stylesheet [ ]>
<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" xmlns:umbraco.contour="urn:umbraco.contour" xmlns:tagsLib="urn:tagsLib" xmlns:BlogLibrary="urn:BlogLibrary" 
  exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library Exslt.ExsltCommon Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes Exslt.ExsltMath Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions Exslt.ExsltStrings Exslt.ExsltSets umbraco.contour tagsLib BlogLibrary ">

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

<xsl:param name="currentPage"/>

<xsl:template match="/">



<div class="newsList">
<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/* [@isDoc and string(umbracoNaviHide) != '1']">
  <xsl:sort select="@updateDate" order="ascending" />
   <h3 class="headline"> <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">
      <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/>
    a>
  h3>
  <small class="meta">Posted: <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:LongDate(@updateDate, true(), ' - ')"/>small><br/>
  <p class="introduction">
    <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:ReplaceLineBreaks(introduction)" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
  p>
  
xsl:for-each>
  div>

xsl:template>

xsl:stylesheet>

Ok, so problem lies in the for-each which will always display the child nodes of the current node being requested on the frontend... you'll have to change that

<xsl:for-eachselect="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::* [@level = 1]//* [name() != 'propertyAliasOfNewsItem']">
  <xsl:sortselect="@updateDate"order="ascending"/>
   <h3class="headline"><ahref="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">
      <xsl:value-ofselect="@nodeName"/>
    </a>
  </h3>
  <smallclass="meta">Posted: <xsl:value-ofselect="umbraco.library:LongDate(@updateDate, true(), ' - ')"/></small><br/>
  <pclass="introduction">
    <xsl:value-ofselect="umbraco.library:ReplaceLineBreaks(introduction)"disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
  </p>
  
</xsl:for-each>

So, basically two changes: always traverse up your tree to find a node at level = 1 (which will be your home page) and from there, find any news item nodes (regardless of their level - hence the //)

-> Have to replace 'propertyAliasOfNewsItem' with the alias of your news item document type

Hope this helps.

Regards,

/Dirk

Holy, my post didn't get posted... Damn!

<xsl:for-eachselect="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::* [@level = 1]//* [name() = 'aliasOfNewsItem']">

First traverse up the tree to find a node at level = 1 (probably your home page) and get all child nodes (regardless of level - hence the //) of type aliasOfNewsItem -> Have to replace 'aliasOfNewsItem' with the alias of the document type for your news item.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

/Dirk

Huh, pretty weird behaviour, my posts are listed before you've posted your xslt... which was my starting point for an answer.... will report that.

/Dirk

And my umbBusinessFrontNews:

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


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

  <xsl:param name="currentPage"/>

  <xsl:variable name="numberOfItems">
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="/macro/numberOfItems != ''">
        <xsl:value-of select="/macro/numberOfItems"/>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>5</xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:variable>
  <xsl:variable name="excerptLength">
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="string(/macro/excerptLength) != ''">
        <xsl:value-of select="/macro/excerptLength"/>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>100</xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:variable>

  <xsl:template match="/">

    <h3>Latest blog posts</h3>
    <ul class="summaryList" id="blogSummary">
      <xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/umbBlog/umbBlogPost [@isDoc and string(umbracoNaviHide) != '1']">
        <xsl:if test="position() &lt;= $numberOfItems">
          <li>
            <h4>
              <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">
                <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/>
              </a>
            </h4>
            <p>
              <xsl:choose>
                <xsl:when test="string($excerptLength) != '0'">
                  <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:TruncateString(umbraco.library:StripHtml(bodyText), number($excerptLength), '...')" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
                </xsl:when>
                <xsl:otherwise>
                  <xsl:value-of select="bodyText" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
                </xsl:otherwise>
              </xsl:choose>
            </p>
            <small>
              <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:ShortDate(PostDate)"/>
            </small>
          </li>
        </xsl:if>
      </xsl:for-each>
    </ul>

  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Really wierd behavior yes.

I posted this instead of the XSLT For-each :

<xsl:for-eachselect="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::* [@level = 1]//* [name() = 'umbNewsArea']">

But now I just dont see any posts on my News-page?

http://master8.v5.baseshop.dk/nyheder.aspx

Ok, weird behaviour was due to server time zone settings change, so that's solved :p

you don't see any news items on your news page.. i guess you're using the wrong document type alias, shouldn't it be the alias of the news item instead of the news area, as that's the only item being outputted?

Cheers,

/Dirk

Aha okay :)

Yes ofcourse, I switched it to umbNewsArticle and it posts like a charm! :) Thanks so much!

Another question - how do I make it only put out like 256 char's?

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