SPXSLT (SharePoint XSL Templates) Release 0.0.9

I’ve just released a new version of the SPXSLT Codeplex Project, version 0.0.9. In this release, I added one new template called FixAmpersands. FixAmpersands is useful when you want to “join’ two lists in an AggregateDataSource in a Data View Web Part (DVWP) and the column you are uisng as the key may contain ampersands….

SPXSLT (SharePoint XSL Templates) Release 0.0.6

I just released a new version of the SPXSLT Codeplex Project with a few minor changes. I’ve added a new template called GetUserNames. It’s very similar to GetUserIDs, except that it parses out the user names (rather than IDs) from a Person or Group column value. It requires the GetUserName template to function. Both GetUserNames…

Displaying the First N Words of Announcement Bodies with XSL in a DVWP

I got a ping yesterday from someone who had come across one of my old posts about Displaying the First N Words of a Long Rich Text Column with XSL. While the bits and pieces are there in the post, without a decent knowledge of XSL, it wasn’t obvious to them how you’d actually using the XSL templates. …

The SPXSLT Codeplex Project – New XSL Templates

Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… About a month ago, at the suggestion of @iwkid, I created a new Codeplex project called SPXSLT.  My goal was to start providing a library of useful XSL templates for people to use in Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) or Content Query Web Parts (CQWPs) in SharePoint.  It’s a bit different from most…