RE: [xsl] Conditional Merge - what am I missing?

[Nate Austin <naustin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

-----Original Message-----
Jeni -

> First, when you come across a particular element in your stub, you are
> copying *all* the elements in the data with the same name. So when
> your stub contains two RelatedParty elements and your data contains
> two RelatedParty elements, you get both RelatedParty elements from the
> data appearing for each RelatedParty elements in the stub (end up with
> four of them).

> I'm not sure what you want to do about that - it depends on what
> semantics you have for the stub.

Sorry, I forgot to mention that the stub will not repeat any element at a
particular level.  (so, for example, <RelatedParty> will never be repeated
under <CustData>, but <FedId> can be used under both <CustData> and
<RelatedParty> )

> Second, the cause of missing information is that within your main
> template, you apply templates without a select attribute at a point
> where the current node is from the data portion of the document, not
> the stub portion of the document:

> You need to have a variable to keep track of the current node at that
> point, and to apply templates to its element children:

Ah.  There's the issue.  I tried it earlier with:
   <xsl:apply-templates select="./node()">
     <xsl:with-param name="context" select="current()"/>
   </xsl:apply-templates>

and some other similar methods.  For some reason I was working under the
impression that xsl:for-each only changed the current node and not the
context node.  That's what I get for starting to work on a problem at 8am
Monday morning with four hours of sleep under my belt (let's see how many
more excuses I can come up with... :).  At any rate, when I change the
xsl:for-each to look like this:
    <xsl:variable name="curr" select="."/>
    <xsl:for-each select="$context/child::*[name() = $currNodeName]">
      <xsl:copy>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="text()"/>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="$curr/node()">
          <xsl:with-param name="context" select="current()"/>
        </xsl:apply-templates>
      </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:for-each>

it of course works like a charm.  Thanks for the help, Jeni!

-Nate

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