I have been trying to create a general XSLT to display all the content of the datatype by passing in the name of the field it uses in umbraco but so far it isn't displaying anything. 

I don't really know what to do with this, i can pass in the name, i can pass in a field of a different datatype but i can't seem to pass in this data type and have the foreach loop run through all the parts of this field. what is wrong with this?

<umbraco:Macro Field="[#list1]" Alias="CheckLists" runat="server"></umbraco:Macro>
<umbraco:Macro Field="[#list2]" Alias="CheckLists" runat="server"></umbraco:Macro>

<xsl:param name="ListField" select="/macro/Field"/>
<xsl:param name="currentPage"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
  <div id="test">
    <xsl:for-each select="$ListField/data/item">
      <p><xsl:value-of select="listitem" /></p>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </div>
</xsl:template>