XSLT Transform doesn’t work until I remove root node
The problem: your XML puts its elements in a namespace. Solution: declare the same namespace in your stylesheet, assign it a prefix and use that prefix to address the elements in the source XML: XSLT 1.0 <xsl:stylesheet version=”1.0″ xmlns:xsl=”http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform” xmlns:met=”www.metoffice.gov.uk/xml/metoRegionalFcst” exclude-result-prefixes=”met”> <xsl:template match=”https://stackoverflow.com/”> <html> <body> <xsl:value-of select=”met:RegionalFcst/met:FcstPeriods/met:Period/met:Paragraph[@title=”Headline:”]”/> </body> </html> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>