No more @nodeTypeAlias

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Changes to the XML Schema

If you ever had to test the Document Type in XSLT, you would've probably used @nodeTypeAlias. Since the new 4.5 Schema however, this has changed.

Consider a Document Type with an alias of subPage. In the old Schema, the umbraco.config XML file would look something like:

<node id="1204" nodeTypeAlias="subPage" .... >
And in the new schema, nodeTypeAlias no longer exists but it is rather used as the actual XML node name. So it becomes:

<subPage id="1204" .....>

So to select the node name, we simply need to use the name() method.

Examples

Getting the Document Type for $currentPage

Old Schema

<xsl:value-of select="$currentPage/@nodeTypeAlias" />
New Schema

<xsl:value-of select="local-name($currentPage)" />
Selecting a certain document type

Old Schema

<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/node [@nodeTypeAlias = 'subPage']">
New Schema

<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/subPage">
or

<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/*">
    <xsl:if test="self::subPage">.......</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
or if you need to test against a variable

<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/*">
    <xsl:if test="local-name() = $subPageName">.......</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
 

I hope I save you some hair with this post, I've gone bald trying to figure it out :)