xlt file format error from CL-5.5.1 to QDX-5.3.3

[Francis Kalinoski]

Test system is runnig CL-5.5.1.  Prod system is runnig QDX-5.3.3.  When xlt file moved from test to prod and then accessed in prod via gui got the following error.

File ‘Translate.xlt’ is malformed:  FileFormatException File ‘/integrator/qdx5.3/integrator/live_of/Xlate/Translate.xlt’ is malformed at line 8: VERSION value ‘6.0’ not in [3.1,4.0,5.0] null.

More on xlt file in test shows

prologue

   xlt_infile: hl7 2.3 Generic_2.3 RDE

   who:        kalfr1

   date:       April 11, 2008 3:09:17 PM PDT

   xlt_outfile:        hl7 2.3 Generic_2.3 RDE

   type:       xlt

   version:    6.0

end_prologue

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grep -E “version” *.xlt in live indicates all xlt files = version 5.0

grep -E “version” *.xlt in test indicates MOST xlt files = version 5.0, but FEW are version 6.0.

Cause?

Solution? 🙁

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[John Hamilton]

Are test and prod on the same system?

How did you move the file ?

When I have seen this error in the past it is because I either had mismatched braces or Brackets or I ftp’d it from one system to the other and in translation it converted something to make the translation incorrect.

Where exactly are you getting this error. Have you tried to just bring it up in the translation configurator?

[Tom Rioux]

It appears your prod server is expecting the Xlates to be either one of three versions:

3.1 or 4.0 or 5.0

I bet if you change the version on your xlate to say 5.0 it will work just fine.

Hope this helps…

Tom Rioux

[Francis Kalinoski]

Apparently whenever a xlt in test/5.5.1 is modified, the version number is changed from 5.0 (what it was in QDX-5.3.3) to 6.0.

Where do change the version?

[Tom Rioux]

Francis,

I found that the same thing happened when I just tried to modify an xlate in our test 5.5.  However, when I attempted to bring the xlate back up via the GUI, I did not get an error.  There must be some sort of setting somewhere that can be modified.  Maybe Charlie, Rob, or someone at Healthvision knows the answer.

Thanks…

Tom Rioux

[Charlie Bursell]

why not simply run hcixltconvert?

[Francis Kalinoski]

hcixltconvert was run during the conversion from QDX-5.3.3 to CL-5.5.1 on the test system – as per instructions.

It appears that any xlt from QDX-5.3.3 on the upgraded test system is changed from version 5 to version 6 when it is edited in CL-5.5.1, and then it becomes backward incompatible.

[Rob Abbott]

Quote:

It appears that any xlt from QDX-5.3.3 on the upgraded test system is changed from version 5 to version 6 when it is edited in CL-5.5.1, and then it becomes backward incompatible.

Xlates configured in 5.3 must be run through hcixltconvert to work in 5.5.  

Xlates configured in 5.5 will not work in 5.3, since the file format has changed.

We work very hard to insure that upgrading interface objects from one release to another is seamless.  We have never provided support for downgrading interface objects.

I think it’s a bad idea in general to develop interfaces on a new release and expect them to work on an old release.

You can change the version number if you want, to see if it will work.  The version number is stored in the prologue in the xlt file.

Rob Abbott
Cloverleaf Emeritus

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