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Martin 6 posts 26 karma points

Mar 10, 2011 @ 14:43
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URL from Content Picker
Sorry for this noob question ...

I am trying to create an xslt macro (GetURLfromContentPicker) that takes the alias of a content picker as a parameter, and returns the URL of that node. My template has:
```
<umbraco:Macro ContentPickerAlias="myContentPicker1" Alias="GetURLfromContentPicker" runat="server">
```
I have confirmed that my parameter gets passed correctly by outputting:
```
<xsl:value-of select="$contentPickerAlias"/>
```
So now I want to make the magic happen: Get the node id that this alias contains, and return the URL for that node. I understand that library.niceUrl() is the way to go, but I can't seem to get it right.

Anyone? :-|
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Martin 6 posts 26 karma points

Mar 10, 2011 @ 14:55
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I tried to do:
```
<xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:NiceUrl(./data [@alias=$contentPickerAlias])" />
```
but it returns a parsing error
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Jeroen Breuer 4908 posts 12265 karma points MVP 5x admin c-trib

Mar 10, 2011 @ 15:13
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Are you using Umbraco 4.5 or higher? In that case try this:
```
<xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:NiceUrl(./name()=$contentPickerAlias)" />
```
You could also do this in an Umbraco item without using xslt:
```
<a href='<umbraco:Item field="disclaimerLink" runat="server" xslt="umbraco.library:NiceUrl({0})"></umbraco:Item>'>Disclaimer</a>
```
Jeroen
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Mike Chambers 636 posts 1253 karma points c-trib

Mar 10, 2011 @ 15:14
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presume you are doing something like...

<xsl:variable name="contentPickerAlias" select="/macro/ContentPickerAlias"/>

and that contentPickerAlias returns a nodeId.

so all you should heve to do is..
```
<xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:NiceUrl($contentPickerAlias)" />
```
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Martin 6 posts 26 karma points

Mar 10, 2011 @ 17:30

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Jeroen: I could not get the xslt-example to work. But the error changed from parsing error to "error reading xslt".

However the inline version worked like a charm!! Thank you so very much!

Mike: Thanks for your tip also! My contentPickerAlias contains the alias of the contentpicker, not the value it is set to (the node id) so I would have to modify this.

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