demo:

http://umbracodemo.netcentric.be/umbraco/XmlOutput.aspx?nodeid=1045

http://umbracodemo.netcentric.be/umbraco/XmlOutput.aspx?nodeid=2021

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awesome tim!

Regarding doing raw xml feeds from umbraco you can also use the /base functionality
(this is not documented very well I know...)

But in short /base is an extension model for building raw data feeds from what ever .net method you setup.

there are a couple of demo feeds available.
Take a look at /config/restExtensions.config and enable these:

<ext assembly="/bin/umbraco" type="umbraco.presentation.umbracoBase.library.member" alias="currentMember">
<permission method="data" allowAll="true" />
<permission method="logout" allowAll="true" />
<permission method="setProperty" allowAll="false"/>
</ext>

Basicly what the above code does is reference the assembly umbraco.dll and it's umbraco.presentation.umbracobase.library.member class.

in this class there are a bunch of methods, among these data(), logout() and setProperty(alias, value)

so with this setup you can reference the output of these methods directly with url's

f.ex: /base/currentMember/data.aspx will return the xml of the current logged in member.
/base/currentMember/logout.aspx will log out the current member
/base/currentMember/setProperty/zipcode/90210.aspx will set the zipcode property on the currentmember to "90210"

this is extendable so you could do an assembly with methods that return a nodes xml based on the like /currentPage/data/ID.aspx

or whatever you would like to get back in it's raw form.

... better make a todo called "Write a book about /Base"

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Hi,

I have tried XmlOutput, and while it is useful, I also find it confusing because it does not (as far as I can see) output exactly the XML that I am given to process in my XSLT macros etc.

For one just trying to find one's way into umbraco it would be very helpful to be able to see exactly the XML one's code is working on. Is there any (simple) way to output exactly the XML file that is given to the XSLT processor?

(I am afraid I do not understand the references to Base, so if that will do the trick could you be a bit more explicit as to how? I tried the example given and all I got was

<error>Extension not found or permission denied</error>

With thanks, Tony.

Thanks Doug,

This is better in that it does print the actual names of tags and attributes, and is clearly recursing through the whole file, so I am confident it is giving me what is there, But:

It does not print the actual values of the data items, and I could not see quickly how to do that. Adding an <xsl:value-of ... prints a concatenation of the content of this item and all child items.

Also I had to change the stuff at the top of your macro to that generated by the "Clean" new macro function - just pasting the lot in gave some sort of stylesheet error.

And it still is not giving the actual raw XML encoding. As a beginner trying to work out what is going on, there is nothing like being able to see the exact input to the process in order to try and understand the output.

Regards, Tony.

Just to say that I have realised that the following line in an XSLT script actually outputs the full XML of the current page to the browser.


You won't see it because the browser throws away all the (XML) tags that it does'nt understand, but if you look at the source of the page they are all there. Also it is not pretty printed, but at least all the original source is there.

Regards, Tony.