Hi,

your best bet here is XSLT for sure. Just as if you were creating a navigation macro (or something like that), where you loop over nodes and out put things such as:

<xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/node">
      <h1>
        <xsl:value-of select="current()/@nodeName"/>
      </h1>
      <p>
        <xsl:value-of select="current()/data[@alias='bodyText']"/>
      </p>
      <p>
        <xsl:value-of select="current()/@author"/>
      </p>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:template>

You would just do the same but include a lot more properties for your 'page'. 

HTH,
Nik

You may want to remove the links in the above if you don't want to visit a specific news page.

Also remove the part calling umbraco.library.StripHtml if you want your links to appear.

I should add that the following would be a good example of a node 'query':

<xsl:variable name="documentTypeAlias" select="string('NewsItem')" />
<xsl:variable name="itmNodes" select="umbraco.library:GetXmlAll()/descendant-or-self::node [@nodeTypeAlias = $documentTypeAlias and string(data [@alias='umbracoNaviHide']) != '1' and umbraco.library:DateGreaterThanOrEqualToday(data [@alias = 'newsDateField'])=1]" />

Of which you would then do:

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:for-each select="$itmNodes">
      <h1>
        <xsl:value-of select="current()/@nodeName"/>
      </h1>
      <p>
        <xsl:value-of select="current()/data[@alias='bodyText']"/>
      </p>
      <p>
        <xsl:value-of select="current()/@author"/>
      </p>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:template>

This will allow you to output ALL news items irregardless of your context.

Cheers,
Nik

I'd go with xslt on this one, since xslt is very well suited for querying for subpages, and displaying their content. 

I'm assuming you have a parent page with some child newsitem pages. Here's some xlst to get you started:

<?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" exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library Exslt.ExsltCommon Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes Exslt.ExsltMath Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions Exslt.ExsltStrings Exslt.ExsltSets ">
    <xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes" />
    <xsl:param name="currentPage" />

    <xsl:template match="/">
        <div id="newsList">
            <xsl:apply-templates select="$currentPage/node[@nodeTypeAlias='newsItem']" />
        </div>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="node">
        <div class="newsItem">
            <h1><xsl:value-of select="./data[@alias='header']" /></h1>
            <xsl:value-of select="./data[@alias='bodyText']" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
            <p class="newsItemData">
                Published at: <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:FormatDate(./@updateDate, 'MM/dd/yyyy')" /><br />
                <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(./@id)}">Read more</a>
            </p>
        </div>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

This xslt is assuming the following:

1. Your news item pages are all located beneath one single newslist page
2. You're displaying the news items from the newslist page (i.e. the newslist page is the current page)
3. Your news items doctype alias is "newsItem"
4. Your newsitems contains properties with aliases "header" and "bodyText", and header is as Textstring and bodyText is a richtext editor.

Thanks very much

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