Using JSON seems far more pragmatic than the mindset that gave birth to XSLT, so I don't really see the connection. JSON is widely used and understood, easy to

Using JSON seems far more pragmatic than the mindset that gave birth to XSLT, so I don't really see the connection. JSON is widely used and understood, easy to parse and serialise to, and fundamentally simpler than most alternatives. You could argue that S-expressions are 'simpler' than JSON, but they didn't take off, for whatever reason - I'm not going to go into opinions on why I think that is, because that never tends to go well on HN :)