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Umbraco XPath query with tokens
using System.Web.Mvc;
using Umbraco.Web.Models;
using Umbraco.Web;
using Umbraco.Core.Xml;
using Umbraco.Web.Mvc;
namespace MyWebsite.Controllers
{
public class MyController : RenderMvcController
{
public override ActionResult Index(RenderModel model)
{
var siteRoot = model.Content.Site();
var tokens = new[] { new XPathVariable("rootId", siteRoot.Id.ToString()) };
var blogPosts = Umbraco.TypedContentAtXPath("id($rootId)[@isDoc]//blogPost", tokens);
//Do something with blog posts before passing a model to the view.
var viewModel = new MyViewModel {
posts = blogPosts
};
return View(viewModel);
}
}
}
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jamiepollock commented Mar 24, 2017

@naepalm no worries :) I've updated my gist to include Chriztian's suggestion. That looks a lot cleaner now.

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