Not kidding, XSLT is functional, it's very different from imperative style OO, it's not complex and can get a lot done with few lines of code. If you think it'

Not kidding, XSLT is functional, it's very different from imperative style OO, it's not complex and can get a lot done with few lines of code. If you think it's painful and ugly, then don't dig any deeper in computer science than javascript.