I did a fair bit XSLT, XSD, and XQuery more than a decade ago. Honestly, not as terrible as you might think. I think with the right language idioms, and good

I did a fair bit XSLT, XSD, and XQuery more than a decade ago. Honestly, not as terrible as you might think. I think with the right language idioms, and good IDE support to mitigate the verbosity, an XML based language could be pretty good.