XSL was misunderstood and misused by pretty much everyone who did try it. Of course, writing code in XML is pretty awful, so that didn't help its reputation, ei

XSL was misunderstood and misused by pretty much everyone who did try it. Of course, writing code in XML is pretty awful, so that didn't help its reputation, either. But the ideas in XSL -- its declarative/functional nature and simple tree-processing-via-pattern-matching processing model -- were really quite good, especially once you understand it well enough to avoid trying to recreate procedural code with it.