Yes, you see the picture :-)

Create your own xslt library where you have all of your .net code and then return xml to your xslt.
This way you keep your presentation layer total flexible

I don't think there is a updated umbraco.library reference
The easy way is to download <a href="http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/">Reflector for .NET</a> and just drop the umbraco.dll into it and browse to the umbraco.library then you can see all methods (and how the work internal)

Here is a dump from reflector containing all methods in umbraco.library

public static string CurrentDate();
public static string DateAdd(DateTime Date, string AddType, int add);
public static string DateAdd(string Date, string AddType, int add);
public static int DateDiff(DateTime firstDate, DateTime secondDate, string diffType);
public static int DateDiff(string firstDate, string secondDate, string diffType);
public static bool DateGreaterThan(string firstDate, string secondDate);
public static bool DateGreaterThanOrEqual(string firstDate, string secondDate);
public static bool DateGreaterThanOrEqualToday(string firstDate);
public static bool DateGreaterThanToday(string firstDate);
public static string FormatDateTime(string Date, string Format);
private static void generateXmlDocument(int parentId, XmlNode parentNode);
public static Domain[] GetCurrentDomains(int NodeId);
public static XPathNodeIterator GetCurrentMember();
public static string GetDictionaryItem(string Key);
public static XPathNodeIterator GetDictionaryItems(string Key);
public static string GetItem(string alias);
public static string GetItem(int nodeID, string alias);
public static XPathNodeIterator GetMedia(int MediaId, bool Deep);
public static XPathNodeIterator GetMember(int MemberId);
public static string GetMemberName(int MemberId);
public static string GetNodeFromLevel(string path, int level);
public static string GetPreValueAsString(int Id);
public static XPathNodeIterator GetPreValues(int DataTypeId);
public static string GetPropertyTypeName(string ContentTypeAlias, string PropertyTypeAlias);
public static Random GetRandom();
public static Random GetRandom(int seed);
public static Relation[] GetRelatedNodes(int NodeId);
public static XPathNodeIterator GetRelatedNodesAsXml(int NodeId);
private static string getUrlByDomain(int DocumentId, string tempUrl, bool atDomain, string currentDomain, bool emptyOnSameDomain);
public static string GetWeekDay(string Date);
public static XPathNodeIterator GetXmlAll();
public static XPathNodeIterator GetXmlDocument(string Path, bool Relative);
public static XPathNodeIterator GetXmlDocumentByUrl(string Url);
public static XPathNodeIterator GetXmlNodeById(string id);
public static XPathNodeIterator GetXmlNodeByXPath(string xpathQuery);
public static XPathNodeIterator GetXmlNodeCurrent();
public static bool HasAccess(int NodeId, string Path);
public static bool IsLoggedOn();
public static bool IsProtected(int DocumentId, string Path);
public static int LastIndexOf(string Text, string Value);
public static string LongDate(string Date);
public static string LongDate(string Date, bool WithTime, string TimeSplitter);
public static string LongDateWithDayName(string Date, string DaySplitter, bool WithTime, string TimeSplitter, string GlobalAlias);
public static string NiceUrl(int nodeID);
private static string niceUrlDo(int nodeID, int startNodeDepth);
public static string NiceUrlFullPath(int nodeID);
public string PageElement(string key);
public int PageId();
public string PageName();
public static void PublishDocument(Guid nodeID, bool publishChildren, User u);
public static void PublishSingleNode(int DocumentId);
public static void PublishSingleNodeDo(int DocumentId);
public static string QueryForNode(string id);
public static string RemoveFirstParagraphTag(string text);
public static string RenderMacroContent(string Text, int PageId);
public static string RenderTemplate(int PageId);
public static string RenderTemplate(int PageId, int TemplateId);
public static string Replace(string text, string oldValue, string newValue);
public static string ReplaceLineBreaks(string text);
public static string RePublishNodes(int nodeID);
public static void RePublishNodesDotNet(int nodeID);
public static string Request(string key);
public static string RequestCookies(string key);
public static string RequestForm(string key);
public static string RequestQueryString(string key);
public static string RequestServerVariables(string key);
public static void SaveXmlCache(XmlDocument Xd, bool WithDCT);
public static void SendMail(string FromMail, string ToMail, string Subject, string Body, bool IsHtml);
public static string Session(string key);
public static string SessionId();
public static void setSession(string key, string value);
public static string ShortDate(string Date);
public static string ShortDate(string Date, bool WithTime, string TimeSplitter);
public static string ShortDateWithGlobal(string Date, string GlobalAlias);
public static string ShortDateWithTimeAndGlobal(string Date, string GlobalAlias);
public static string ShortTime(string Date);
public static XPathNodeIterator Split(string StringToSplit, string Separator);
public static string StripHtml(string text);
public static string Tidy(string StringToTidy, bool LiveEditing);
public static string TruncateString(string Text, int MaxLength, string AddString);
public static void UnPublishSingleNode(int DocumentId);
private static void XmlChanged();

Regards/Christian
<a href="http://www.cpalm.dk">www.cpalm.dk</a>

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CPalm, www.cpalm.dk

<i>Yes, you see the picture :-) </i>

yaaaay. 3 hours with umbraco and already its making more sense to me than 3 years with Mambo. granted i didnt really _try to understand the underlying mambo infrastructure, but it just seems Umbraco is really quite intuitive and ... well... neat. :)

<i>Create your own xslt library where you have all of your .net code and then return xml to your xslt.
This way you keep your presentation layer total flexible </i>

This is where i will probably become a bit unstuck.. having never used XML extensively before, there's probably a bit of a learning curve there for me. Guess i'll need the source for the Umbraco library, so i can work out how that's been coded, then mimic that for my own libraries. is somebody able to send me the source?

<i>I don't think there is a updated umbraco.library reference The easy way is to download Reflector for .NET and just drop the umbraco.dll into it and browse to the umbraco.library then you can see all methods (and how the work internal) </i>

Awesome, i'll check that out for sure. thansk for the tip

<i>Here is a dump from reflector containing all methods in umbraco.library </i>

Nice one, thanks for that. Printed and added to my reference book. :)

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Wishes he could work with Umbraco all the time.

Anyone know how up to date this is?
http://www.umbraco.org/doc/umbraco.libraryMembers.html

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Wishes he could work with Umbraco all the time.

I think it's missing a handfull of the newer methods. Like getting prevalues, rendering macros and templates and getting media data.

The library source is commented pretty good in the newer versions, so you should probably take a look at that - it's in the svn.

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