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[xslt] Problems with libxslt (or maybe I just don't get it?)

Hello,

Im a newbie to libxslt. Heres my prob...

compiled libxml2 fine no probs
compiled libxslt fine no probs
make test however spits a lot of errors out like the following...

xslt:value-of : select is missing
xslt:value-of : select is missing
xslt:variable : name is missing
xslt:value-of : select is missing
xslt:value-of : select is missing
xslt:value-of : select is missing

So I decided to do my own testing. Take the following...

hello.xml
---------
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="hello.xsl"?>
<greeting>Hello World.</greeting>


hello.xsl
---------
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<html xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
	xsl:version="1.0">
<head><title>Greeting</title></head>
<body><p>Words of greeting:<br/>
	<b><i><u><xsl:value-of select="greeting"/></u></i></b>
	</p></body>
</html>

Which is basically straight from www.xml.com/lpt/a/2000/08/holman/s2_1.html

Then with these two files I run xsltproc and I get the following...

$ xsltproc hello.xsl hello.xml 
xslt:value-of : select is missing

Ok. So I start screwing with the style sheet, in particular the <xsl:value-of select="greeting"/>
I change it to <xsl:value-of xsl:select="greeting"/>
Then I try again

$ xsltproc hello.xsl hello.xml 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<html><head><title>Greeting</title></head><body><p>Words of greeting:<br/><b><i><u>Hello World.</u></i></b></p></body></html>

Which is what it was meant to do.
So my question is what is going on here? Why doesn't <xsl:value-of select="greeting"/> work properly? Is it the way I've built it? It never complained until the make test. All the test files specify it this way? WTF is going on?

Very confused, and appreciative of any experience anyone can offer.

Crispin
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