I've just begun building a site in Umbraco after using .NET for many years.

I'm trying to accomplish something which I am sure should be very simple.

This is to display a menu in the footer of my site, displaying a list of page links to pages which are children of a 'Footer' placeholder page which is not displayed in the main menu.

I published some dummy pages in the hierarchy Homepage > Footer > Test Page 1, etc.

Then I created a macro and an XSLT file to display a list of the pages at this location in the hierarchy.

In my master page:

<umbraco:macro alias="umbFooterNavigation" startNodeId="1099" runat="server"></umbraco:macro>

1099 is the ID of the placeholder page.

In the macro's XSLT file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [ <!ENTITY nbsp " "> ]>
<xsl:stylesheet
version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
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"
exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library Exslt.ExsltCommon Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes Exslt.ExsltMath Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions Exslt.ExsltStrings Exslt.ExsltSets">
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
<xsl:param name="currentPage"/>
<xsl:variable name="startNodeId" select="/macro/startNodeId"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
    <ul>
        <xsl:for-each select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($startNodeId)/node">
            <li>
                <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">
                <xsl:if test="$currentPage/@id = current()/@id">
                    <xsl:attribute name="class">selected</xsl:attribute>
                </xsl:if>
                <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/>
                </a>
            </li>
        </xsl:for-each>
    </ul>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

But the output renders nothing more than an empty self-closing <ul /> tag, which breaks my page rendering.

Any ideas to help out a newbie? And how can I view the raw XML output of an XSLT file?

Thanks in advance!