XSLT Transform doesn't work until I remove root node

Question

I\'m trying to extract the headline from the below XML from the Met Office web service using XSLT, however my XSLT select returns blank.

SOURCE:

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Answer 1

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