My experience with XSLT is it only works until you hit an edge case, and then it's impossibly hard and you need a full programming language. I usually hit those

My experience with XSLT is it only works until you hit an edge case, and then it's impossibly hard and you need a full programming language. I usually hit those edge cases quickly so I'd prefer XSLT didn't exist and that I just had a well designed XML library in something like python