Get PageName from PageLink

I have what seems like should be a common problem, but can't seem to find the answer. When using the PageLink datatype in SitePub components, is there a way to grab the page name from the link? So, for example, I have a list of links to pages, and don't want to load the sitemap. Instead of using

[html]
Content XML:

...

Display this string
$PAGE_LINK[blah/blah]

Display this string for the second link
$PAGE_LINK[blah/page2]

...
[/html]

and making the link with this xsl:

[html]
Appearance:

[/html]

I would like to be able to do something like this instead:

[html]
Content XML:

...

$PAGE_LINK[blah/blah]
$PAGE_LINK[blah/page2]

...
[/html]

with some function that I could pass the PAGE_LINK to and get the name back...

[html]
Appearance:

[/html]

Is there anything like this??

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Rick Poulin

There is, but it's a bit heavyweight, so I'd recommend finding a better solution if you're going to be doing this in every component. However, it is suitable for building your navigation component.

You need to read your site's sitemap file. There's an OOTB external to do this:

<Data>
  <External>
    <Prefix Object="com.tescobank.utils.CustomUtils" Method="getPageInfo" Scope="local"/>
    <Object Scope="local">com.interwoven.livesite.external.impl.LivesiteSiteMap</Object>
    <Method>getSiteMap</Method>
  </External>
</Data>

Then, write appearance XSL something like this:

<xsl:if test="contains(//Datum[@ID='mypagelink'],'$PAGE_LINK[')">
  <xsl:variable name="pagevalue"><xsl:value-of select="substring-after(substring-before(//Datum[@ID='mypagelink'],']'),'$PAGE_LINK[')"/></xsl:variable>
  <a href="//Datum[@ID='mypagelink']"><xsl:value-of select="//node[./link/value=$pagevalue]/label"/></a>
</xsl:if>

This of course assumes that the Page you're linking to is actually the link of a node in your sitemap.