You're right Doug. This does not kill the app pool:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [ <!ENTITY nbsp "&#x00A0;"> ]>
<xsl:stylesheet 
  version="1.0" 
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
  xmlns:msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
  xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
  xmlns:umbraco.library="urn:umbraco.library" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltCommon="urn:Exslt.ExsltCommon" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes="urn:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltMath="urn:Exslt.ExsltMath" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions="urn:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltStrings="urn:Exslt.ExsltStrings" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltSets="urn:Exslt.ExsltSets" xmlns:ProWorks.FlickrXSLTSearch="urn:ProWorks.FlickrXSLTSearch" xmlns:PS.XSLTsearch="urn:PS.XSLTsearch" 
  exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library Exslt.ExsltCommon Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes Exslt.ExsltMath Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions Exslt.ExsltStrings Exslt.ExsltSets ProWorks.FlickrXSLTSearch PS.XSLTsearch ">

<xsl:output method="html" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

<xsl:param name="currentPage"/>
<xsl:variable name="xmlcontent" select="umbraco.library:GetXmlDocumentByUrl('http://plymouthcollege-outdoored.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss')" />

<xsl:template match="/">

  <xsl:apply-templates select="$xmlcontent/*" />

</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Thanks for the pointer, think it might be shaping up to be one of those days!

Save your self some effort and check out these two excellent resources for consuming rss and atom feeds...

http://dawoe.blogspot.com/2008/03/transforming-feedsone-xslt-to-rule-them.html

http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/how-tos/xslt-useful-tips-and-snippets/xslt-handling-of-all-rss-versions

A bit of copy-paste and you're done in 5 mins or less!

cheers,
doug.

Hi Simon,

The problem was that when you apply-templates on the XML, the only template that it matched was the match="/" which would cause an infinite loop.

The way you've got it now using "$xmlcontent/*" is fine, as that applies templates to the child node (in this case the root node aka document element).

If you had to apply-templates at the top root, then you could add a "mode"?

<xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="$xmlcontent" mode="rss" />
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="/rss" mode="rss">
    <xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
</xsl:template>

Cheers, Lee.

Thanks Lee, school boy error :s

No worries, took me a while to realise what was going on too... Hindsight is a wonderful thing! ;-)

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