Hi everyone,

I've been working on a slider which uses images picked in a doctype and xslt. I have been trying all day to make the slider have a text caption overlaying the image but can't seem to do it, or find a decent resource to work with. I have based my slider on soh tanakas portfolio slider http://www.sohtanaka.com/web-design/examples/image-slider/. Here is the xslt:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [ <!ENTITY nbsp "&#x00A0;"> ]>
<xsl:stylesheet
  version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  xmlns:msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
  xmlns:umbraco.library="urn:umbraco.library" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltCommon="urn:Exslt.ExsltCommon" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes="urn:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltMath="urn:Exslt.ExsltMath" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions="urn:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltStrings="urn:Exslt.ExsltStrings" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltSets="urn:Exslt.ExsltSets"
  exclude-result-prefixes="msxml  umbraco.library
 Exslt.ExsltCommon Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes  Exslt.ExsltMath 
Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions Exslt.ExsltStrings  Exslt.ExsltSets ">


<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

<xsl:param name="currentPage"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
           <div id="main_view">
            <div id="window">  
                <div id="image_reel">
                  <xsl:apply-templates select="$currentPage[@level = 1]/descendant-or-self::*[@isDoc]/sliderItem" />
                </div>         
            </div>
        </div>
              <div class="paging">
              <a href="#" rel="1">1</a>
              <a href="#" rel="2">2</a>
              <a href="#" rel="3">3</a>
            </div>

  </xsl:template>
  
  
  <xsl:template match="sliderItem">
                <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(sliderLink)}">
                  <xsl:apply-templates select="sliderImage"/>
                  </a>
</xsl:template>
  
    
    <xsl:template match="sliderImage">
  <xsl:variable name="media" select="umbraco.library:GetMedia(., false())"/>
      <img src="/ImageGen.ashx?image={$media/umbracoFile}&amp;width=968" alt="{$media/@nodeName}" />
</xsl:template>


</xsl:stylesheet>

and here is the jQuery:

<script type="text/javascript">

      $(document).ready(function() {

  //Set Default State of each portfolio piece
  $(".paging").show();
  $(".paging a:first").addClass("active");
    
  //Get size of images, how many there are, then determin the size of the image reel.
  var imageWidth = $("#window").width();
  var imageSum = $("#image_reel img").size();
  var imageReelWidth = imageWidth * imageSum;
  
  //Adjust the image reel to its new size
  $("#image_reel").css({'width' : imageReelWidth});
  
  //Paging + Slider Function
  rotate = function(){  
    var triggerID = $active.attr("rel") - 1; //Get number of times to slide
    var image_reelPosition = triggerID * imageWidth; //Determines the distance the image reel needs to slide

    $(".paging a").removeClass('active'); //Remove all active class
    $active.addClass('active'); //Add active class (the $active is declared in the rotateSwitch function)
    
    //Slider Animation
    $("#image_reel").fadeOut(200);
    $("#image_reel").animate({left: -image_reelPosition}, 50 );
    $("#image_reel").fadeIn(400);
  };
  
  //Rotation + Timing Event
  rotateSwitch = function(){    
    play = setInterval(function(){ //Set timer - this will repeat itself every 3 seconds
      $active = $('.paging a.active').next();
      if ( $active.length === 0) { //If paging reaches the end...
        $active = $('.paging a:first'); //go back to first
      }
      rotate(); //Trigger the paging and slider function
    }, 7000); //Timer speed in milliseconds (3 seconds)
  };
  
  rotateSwitch(); //Run function on launch
  
  //On Hover
  $("#image_reel a").hover(function() {
    clearInterval(play); //Stop the rotation
  }, function() {
    rotateSwitch(); //Resume rotation
  });  
  
  //On Click
  $(".paging a").click(function() {  
    $active = $(this); //Activate the clicked paging
    //Reset Timer
    clearInterval(play); //Stop the rotation
    rotate(); //Trigger rotation immediately
    rotateSwitch(); // Resume rotation
    return false; //Prevent browser jump to link anchor
  });  
  
});
      
  </script>

I wanted to add another richtext property to the doctype called 'sliderCaption', add that in the xslt as:

    <xsl:template match="sliderImage">

  <xsl:variable name="media" select="umbraco.library:GetMedia(., false())"/>
      <img src="/ImageGen.ashx?image={$media/umbracoFile}&amp;width=968" alt="{$media/@nodeName}" />
<div class="sliderCaption"><xsl:value-of select="$currentPage/sliderCaption" /></div>

</xsl:template>

and then modify the jQuery to show the caption (either under or overlayed - not too bothered, just need it working first!) at the same time as each image shows.

However, I have not been able to do this, I have tried quite a few different examples and tried to modify the code but I'm getting nowhere after several hours... hence the huge post!

If anyone knows how to do this, or can point me in the right direction, please let me know :)

Thanks in advance.

Sam.