My impression of XSLT is that there were representatives from every different programming language paradigm on the XSLT standard committee, and each one of them

My impression of XSLT is that there were representatives from every different programming language paradigm on the XSLT standard committee, and each one of them was able to get just enough of what was special about their own paradigm into the standard to showcase it while sabotaging the others and making them all look foolish, but not enough to actually get any work done or lord forbid synergistically dovetail together into a unified whole. The only way I was ever able to get anything done with XLST was to use Microsoft's script extensions to drop down into JavaScript and just solve the problem with a few lines of code. And that begs the question of why am I not just solving this problem with a few lines of JavaScript code instead of inviting XSLT to the party? More on XML, XSLT, SGML, DSSSL, and the DDJ interview "A Triumph of Simplicity: James Clark on Markup Languages and XML": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33728303 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33728303