Re: PART 3 -THE REVERSE DIRECTION -- Yet still moving

  <!-- Minor question:
  Is there a better way to do this than using 'local' variables?-->
        <xsl:variable name="IND_NAME">
		<xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
        </xsl:variable>

If you _did_ need a variable then you should not define it like that: as
it makes a result tree fragment which you don't need, you would just do

<!-- Minor question:
Is there a better way to do this than using 'local' variables?-->
        <xsl:variable name="IND_NAME" select="name()"/>


But you should almost never test on name() that is just re-implementing
(inefficiently, and in a way that is not namespace-safe) template
matching.

      <xsl:variable name="CURRENT_NODE">
		<xsl:value-of select="node()"/>	
        </xsl:variable> 

That confusingly does not define CURRENT_NODE to be the current node
(to do that you would do

      <xsl:variable name="CURRENT_NODE" select="."/>

It defines it to be a result tree fragment representing _copies_ of
_children_ of the current node.

so don't do this

   <xsl:when test="$IND_NAME='NAME_MIDDLE'">
	    <abc:field name="THE_ALIAS" number="2">

you could do

   <xsl:when test="self::NAME_MIDDLE">
	    <abc:field name="THE_ALIAS" number="2">

But that, as I say is just a poir man's version of template matching so
get rid of teh whole xsl:choose and just have

<xsl:template match="NAME_MIDDLE">
 ....


   <xsl:when test="$IND_NAME='NAME_PREFIX'">
So the current node here is NAME_PREFIX
        <xsl:apply-templates select="ALIAS" />
so the above line applies templates to all the ALIAS element children of
the NAME_PREFIX element, but there are none. You presumably want to
apply templates to ../ALIAS not ALIAS as ALIAS is your brother not your
child.



David


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