I agree with most of the folks here. XSLT in framework is just not the right place. 1. It is bulky and comes with a lot of baggage. 2. Writing even a small sta

I agree with most of the folks here. XSLT in framework is just not the right place. 1. It is bulky and comes with a lot of baggage. 2. Writing even a small statement like int x=2 in xslt is an arduous task of <xsl:variable select="blah blah"/> (this is the shortest way, it gets even longer if you need to do more complex stuff. 3. It is not advanced enough like 'real' programming languages. The only thing I would use XSLT for is document transformation. I totally agree with xsltuser2010 (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1330691 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1330691)