XSL Stylesheet and using a metadata file

Greetings,

I am using an XML document as metadata for defining the fields of the flat
files I am trying to generate.

I thought at one point this was working but something must have changed
because I am no longer getting the desired results and I need help getting
back on track.

In my metadata XML file I have the following sample:

<records>
        <type_AA0>
                <record>
                        <field_no>1</field_no>
                        <starting_position>1</starting_position>
                        <length>3</length>
                        <justification>L</justification>
                        <content></content>
                        <default_value>AA0</default_value>
                        <data_type>text</data_type>
                        <name>record_id</name>
                </record>
                <record>        
                        <field_no>1</field_no>
                        <starting_position>1</starting_position>
                        <length>3</length>
                        <justification>L</justification>
                        <content></content>
                        <default_value>xxx</default_value>
                        <data_type>text</data_type>
                        <name>record_id</name>
                        <plan_id>abc</plan_id>
                </record>
        </type_AA0>
</records>

This gets loaded into my stylesheet with this command:

<xsl:variable name="field_definitions"
select="document('my_metadata.xml')/records"/>

Here is my template:

<xsl:template match="claim_file">

        <xsl:apply-templates select="$field_definitions/type_AA0/*[(plan_id
= current()/provider[1]/claim[1]/plan_id) or (not(plan_id) and
(not(field_no=../type_AA0/*[plan_id =
current()/provider[1]/claim[1]/plan_id]/field_no)))]">
                
                        <xsl:sort select="field_no" order="ascending"
data-type="number"/>
                
                        <xsl:with-param name="current_context" select="."/>
                                                
                </xsl:apply-templates>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="record">
        
                <xsl:param name="current_context"/>

        <!-- The rest of this code isn't relevant to my problem 
                but eventually (after going through a padding template) the
value gets printed out 
                to the output document -->

</xsl:template>

Here is a sample of my input XML document :

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<claim_file>
   <process_date>2005-02-10T02:21:49</process_date>
   <provider>
      <provider_organization_name>Best Eye Care</provider_organization_name>
      <claim>
                <plan_id>abc</plan_id>
        </claim>
   </provider>
</claim_file>

What I want to happen is, I want the field record from the metadata that
corresponds to the plan_id for this file (all claims will have the same
plan_id so I just use the first claim of the first provider to determine
what the plan_id is).  If there is no plan_id in the metadata file that
matches the one for the source file then I want to use the default field
record.  That is, the one with no plan_id elements in it.

What I exepct from the above output is:

"abc"

What I get is:

"AA0abc"

My problem is that it is not excluding the 'default' field record from my
metadata file.  If I run this with a different plan_id in the source XML
file, such as "def" then it will produce:  "AA0".

So it ALWAYS includes the default field record and then it will select the
field record for that plan if it matches.  What I want is either or, never
both.  Does that make sense?

Thanks much in advance,
Jim Neff

"Iway owknay atthay Iway owknay othingnay aboutway XSLTAY"



        


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