Question

I have an XSL variable prdxml which holds an XML like this

    <node id="2939" parentID="2938" level="3" writerID="0" >
  <data alias="itemNumbers">,3101056,8261247,</data>
  <data alias="pass_word">akspass</data>
  <data alias="logo">/media/41532/inner-logo01.png</data> 
</node>

How can I select id(id=”2939″) which is in the root node from this variable

Answer 1

This looks like the XML structure of an Umbraco node (pre-v4.5).

To access any of the attributes on an Umbraco node, you can use the @ symbol like so:

<xsl:value-of select="$prdxml/@id" />
<xsl:value-of select="$prdxml/@parentID" />

To access properties you’ve defined on an Umbraco node, you’ll use something like this:

<xsl:value-of select="$prdxml/data[@alias='pass_word']" />    
<xsl:value-of select="$prdxml/data[@alias='logo']" />

Umbraco have a whole section on their wiki here; http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/xslt ; with examples on how to traverse their XML with XPATH.

— edit to address comments —

A working version of my XSLT is:

<?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="html" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

<xsl:param name="currentPage"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
    Current Page ID : <xsl:value-of select="$currentPage/@id" />
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Possible reasons why this may not display on your page could be :

• <xsl:param name="currentPage" /> is removed from your XSLT.
• The XSLT isn’t bound to a Macro.
• The Macro isn’t featured on a Template.
• The Template isn’t assigned to your Node.
• The Node hasn’t been published.