Suggestions for why this XSLT isn't working?

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:19:37 -0700

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I'm a relative beginner when it comes to XSLT but I thought this would be a fairly straightforward example. I'm just trying to render the items from an RSS feed as a simple unordered list <ul>. It doesn't, however, return any results and I can't work out why.

here's the xslt code

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!-- Edited by XMLSpy® -->
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:template match="/">
  <html>
  <body>
  <h2>DLG Circulars</h2>
    <ul>
       <xsl:for-each select="rss/channel/item/">
       <li><a href="<xsl:value-of select="link"/>">
             <xsl:value-of select="title"/></a>
             <br />
             <xsl:value-of select="description"/>
       </li>
       </xsl:for-each>
    </ul>
  </body>
  </html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

and here's a portion of the source rss/xml file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:yt="http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007">
   <channel>
      <title>DLG Circulars</title>
      <description>Circulars from the Department of Local Government</description>
      <link>http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=61096c12df0a4826a0c39f6b85da0ead</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:44:50 -0700</pubDate>
      <generator>http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/</generator>

      <item>
         <title>Walk Safely to School Day (28 kb)</title>
         <link>http://www.dlg.nsw.gov.au/dlg/dlghome/documents/Circulars/10-07.pdf</link>
         <description>Circular, Ref : 10-07</description>
         <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dlg.nsw.gov.au/dlg/dlghome/documents/Circulars/10-07.pdf</guid>
         <pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
         <media:thumbnail url="http://www.dlg.nsw.gov.au/images/dlglogo.gif"/>
         <category>DLG</category>
      </item>
      <item>
         <title>Characteristics Of Candidates And Councillors 2008 (38 kb)</title>
         <link>http://www.dlg.nsw.gov.au/dlg/dlghome/documents/Circulars/10-06.pdf</link>
         <description>Circular, Ref : 10-06</description>
         <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dlg.nsw.gov.au/dlg/dlghome/documents/Circulars/10-06.pdf</guid>
         <pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
         <media:thumbnail url="http://www.dlg.nsw.gov.au/images/dlglogo.gif"/>
         <category>DLG</category>
      </item>
      <item>
         <title>Updated guidelines on the exercise of functions under CA Act 1998 and Companion Animals Frequently Asked Questions (49 kb)</title>
         <link>http://www.dlg.nsw.gov.au/dlg/dlghome/documents/Circulars/10-05.pdf</link>
         <description>Circular, Ref : 10-05</description>
         <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dlg.nsw.gov.au/dlg/dlghome/documents/Circulars/10-05.pdf</guid>
         <pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
         <media:thumbnail url="http://www.dlg.nsw.gov.au/images/dlglogo.gif"/>
         <category>DLG</category>
      </item>

   </channel>
</rss>

what have I done wrong?

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