> I wouldn’t say jq is really comparable to xslt though, xslt has much more transformative flexibility. It’s closer to xquery. jq isn't structured around data

> I wouldn’t say jq is really comparable to xslt though, xslt has much more transformative flexibility. It’s closer to xquery. jq isn't structured around data schema transformations, it's true, so writing complex transforms is not as easy as with XSLT, but it is very much possible. Essentially it's a reduction over [possibly paths to] elements of interest in `.` updating the reduction state with the new schema. You can organize your code into functions that do much what XSLs do.