This looks like it might work but I'm not getting anything.

<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/descendant::* [@isDoc and string(photo)!=''][1]">
    <xsl:sort select="publicationDate" order="descending" />
    <xsl:variable name="article" select="@id" />
</xsl:for-each>

Hi Connie,

You need to do the position-test inside the loop (essentially after the sorting) and not when selecting the nodes to iterate (your for-each only iterates the first item), e.g.:

<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage//*[@isDoc][normalize-space(photo)]">
    <xsl:sort select="publicationDate" data-type="text" order="descending" />
    <xsl:if test="position() = 1">
        <!-- Do something with the current node here -->
    </xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>

I'm guessing you need the ID to do the rendering - but just so you know: You can do the rendering inside the for-each if you want, because you've already got a reference to it, e.g.:

<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage//*[@isDoc][normalize-space(photo)]">
    <xsl:sort select="publicationDate" data-type="text" order="descending" />
    <xsl:if test="position() = 1">
        <section class="latest">
            <h1><xsl:value-of select="(@nodeName[not(normalize-space(../header))] | header)[1]" /></h1>

            <!-- etc. -->
        </section>
    </xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>

Hope that helps,

/Chriztian

Yeah, ended up with a bunch of nested loops but, hey it works. Not too bad since it's just hitting that one XML file.

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