I have read many comments here on HN that suggests that many have had a love/hate relationship with XML/XSLT. I currently use Hugo as my go-to static site gene

I have read many comments here on HN that suggests that many have had a love/hate relationship with XML/XSLT. I currently use Hugo as my go-to static site generator for smaller projects, but started pondering if it would be possible to skip the compilation step entirely by using XML/XSLT.