Feels strange to say, but while looking at those XSL files I’m thinking: that looks really good. I cut my teeth on HTML5 and JSON APIs from 2010 and beyond, so

Feels strange to say, but while looking at those XSL files I’m thinking: that looks really good. I cut my teeth on HTML5 and JSON APIs from 2010 and beyond, so I never really had to work with XML. I’ve never felt wholly comfortable with the mixing of semantic markup and data with the presentational elements required for styling. While advancements in CSS have improved the situation, I really like the boundaries demonstrated here and the inversion of of priorities: ie. we fetch the data and then we consider presentation rather than downloading the presentational layer which then in turn fetches the data. I know there is a lot of baggage around XML, but this aspect of it really does seem superior.