[xsl] Backward Navigation Problem

[Anil Kumar Veeramalli <anil.v@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

My sample XML file lok lilke this
<root>
<employees>
 <employee hireDate="04/23/1999">
   <COLUMN NAME="LAST">Hilllfrist</COLUMN>  
   <COLUMN NAME="STATUS"><![CDATA[A]]></COLUMN>
 </employee>
 <employee hireDate="05/23/1999">
   <COLUMN NAME="LAST">raj</COLUMN>  
   <COLUMN NAME="STATUS"><![CDATA[T]]></COLUMN>
 </employee>
</employees>
<TABLE NAME="XLATTABLE_EMPL_STATUS">
<ROWS>
<ROW>
<COLUMN NAME="STATUS"><![CDATA[T]]></COLUMN>
<COLUMN NAME="DESCR"><![CDATA[Terminated]]></COLUMN>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<COLUMN NAME="STATUS"><![CDATA[A]]></COLUMN>
<COLUMN NAME="DESCR"><![CDATA[Active]]></COLUMN>
</ROW>
<ROW>
</TABLE >
</root>

I need to Iterate all the Status values  and need to fetch the 
description from XLATTABLE_EMPL_STATUS.

Example if the status is A, it has to be displayed as Active, if its T , 
it has to be displayed as Terminated.

My xsl code is as below.

xsl:template match="root">
 <xsl:for-each select="employees">
   <xsl:for-each select="employee">
   <xsl:if test="@NAME='STATUS'">
       <xsl:variable name="status" select="."/>        
  
       <xsl:for-each 
select="TABLE[@NAME='XLATTABLE_EMPL_STATUS']/ROWS/ROW/COLUMN[@NAME='STATUS']">
               <xsl:value-of 
select="TABLE[@NAME='XLATTABLE_EMPL_STATUS']/ROWS/ROW/COLUMN[@NAME='DESCR']"
       </xsl:for-each>

   </xsl:if>

   </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

looks like 
TABLE[@NAME='XLATTABLE_EMPL_STATUS']/ROWS/ROW/COLUMN[@NAME='STATUS']" is 
not working.

Approaches I followed.
1)  ../TABLE[@NAME='XLATTABLE_EMPL_STATUS']/ROWS/ROW/COLUMN[@NAME='STATUS']"
2) 
parent::node()/TABLE[@NAME='XLATTABLE_EMPL_STATUS']/ROWS/ROW/COLUMN[@NAME='DESCR']

Please suggest me on this.


Thanks,
Anil