Trying to get XSLT to seek out templateID root and render the select statement. XSLT seems to ignore the if statement. Is there a better way to have the IF statement search the XML document and render the select value?

XSLT 2.0

<td width='50%' align='left' valign="top"><b><xsl:text>Occupation: </xsl:text></b>
<xsl:if test="//n1:templateId/@root='2.16.840.1.113883.10.20.1.15'">
<xsl:value-of select="/n1:ClinicalDocument/n1:component/n1:structuredBody/n1:component/n1:section/n1:entry/n1:observation/n1:value/@displayName"/>
</xsl:if>
</td>

I suspect that you are overlooking the fact that a path expression starting with "/" or "//" always selects from the root of the document, so <xsl:if test="//x"/> tests if there is an <x> anywhere.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Understood, however I only have root='2.16.840.1.113883.10.20.1.15' in one place in the XML document. If that is the case should the //x/ work? or should I be more specific because //templateID/@root is in other areas of the xml document? I have also tried to type out the whole path without the "If" statement correctly rendering the value. Thanks as always for your help!

It is unclear what you are trying to display - basically the logic currently reads as follows:

If there exists, anywhere in my document an element called templateId with a root attribute that equals '2.16.840.1.113883.10.20.1.15' Then display the following attribute value.

This is likely because you are not considering the current context - a core concept of XSLT programming.

Without knowing the structure of your XML document (please don't post a whole HL7 document!) its hard to say what you are trying to output, nor how to display it.

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/