Comments on: How to use umbraco.library GetMedia in XSLT

By: Lee Kelleher

Lee Kelleher — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:02:38 +0000

Hi Colm, Pedro,

I’m thinking that you are using the new XML schema for Umbraco. My example in this blog post uses the legacy XML scheme (which was current when I wrote this post in 2009).

Take a look at my post for GetMedia in Umbraco 4.5+: http://blog.leekelleher.com/2010/08/11/how-to-use-umbraco-library-getmedia-in-xslt-for-umbraco-v4-5/

Any specific problems, please post on the Our Umbraco forum, there are a lot of people wanting to help there!

Cheers, Lee.

By: Pedro M.

Pedro M. — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:57:29 +0000

Hi Colm , i have the same problem

By: Colm

Colm — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 11:48:40 +0000

I’m having trouble with this.. why isn’t this working?

I’m trying to pass in the nodeId (as selected from a mediapicker) as the mediaId param of the macro, but it isn’t working
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

By: Lee Kelleher

Lee Kelleher — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:16:39 +0000

You’re very welcome Mr. Scott, happy to be of service!

By: John Scott

John Scott — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:00:45 +0000

Absolutely brilliant, thank you for sharing this, very handy at 10 minutes to five

By: How to use umbraco.library GetMedia in XSLT for Umbraco v4.5 « Lee Kelleher’s Weblog

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:43:52 +0000

[...] a comment » This is a quick follow-up on my previous blog post: “How to use umbraco.library GetMedia in XSLT“. At the request of fellow Umbraco South-West UK developer, Dan, that I should update the [...]

By: Lee Kelleher

Lee Kelleher — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:29:43 +0000

Hey Dan,

Chriztian Steinmeier (@greystate) has asked me to write a definitive guide for the Pimp My XSLT website, which I will get around to very soon!

In the meantime, here’s a quick update for v4.5.1

http://blog.leekelleher.com/2010/08/11/how-to-use-umbraco-library-getmedia-in-xslt-for-umbraco-v4-5/

Cheers, Lee.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:11:44 +0000

Hey Lee,

An update to the new schema would be mega-handy – still use this snippet reference loads, but working much more with 4.5 schema now.

Cheers

By: Lee Kelleher

Lee Kelleher — Sat, 22 May 2010 15:06:23 +0000

Hi David,

I haven’t heard anything about the XML schema for GetMedia in v4.1 but my guess would be that it would follow the content schema, with docType and property aliases as the tag names. Might be worth keeping an eye on the CodePlex commits for v4.1?

Cheers, Lee.

By: David Conlisk

David Conlisk — Fri, 21 May 2010 09:10:28 +0000

Hey Lee,

Good stuff! How will this change with the new v4.1 xml format? Or are media items unaffected by this?

Cheers,

David

By: Lee Kelleher

Lee Kelleher — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:59:29 +0000

Hi Eddie,

My advice would be to modify the Image media-type to add a new textstring field called “altText” (or similar), then it is associated with that media item.

If you want to have an adhoc alternative text for each media-item (in the richtext-editor), then you could add a new ‘text’ parameter to your Macro and use that in the XSLT.

If you need further help, please post a message on the Our Umbraco forums… we’re always happy to help over there!

http://our.umbraco.org/

Cheers, Lee.

By: Eddie Foreman

Eddie Foreman — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:06:28 +0000

Hi Lee

Just starting out with Umbraco and have found your article invaluable.

I was wondering if it’s possible to create a xlst/macro where the editor can also manually enter the alt text. I was hoping that this could be achieved with the Textstring datatype?

Any advice or pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Eddie

By: Nico Lubbers

Nico Lubbers — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:55:33 +0000

Thanks Lee,

This was a really helpfull post!

By: Jukka-Pekka Keisala

Jukka-Pekka Keisala — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:08:23 +0000

I see the form stripped out image tag. I wanted to show you that Image(data[@alias='myphoto']) should return full image tag and when using second parameter then you can access img attributes as shown in Image(data[@alias='myphoto','@src'])

By: Jukka-Pekka Keisala

Jukka-Pekka Keisala — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:05:19 +0000

This is definitely one of the methods that I would like to get simplified. I would like to just pass an id and some parameters. Something like this:

umbraco.library:Image(data[@alias='myphoto']) returns

umbraco.library:Image(data[@alias='myphoto'],’@src’) returns /path/image.gif”