It's amusing - I still have a visceral negative reaction to XSLT. I can't help it. I spent a couple years down that rabbit hole before realizing what a dead end

It's amusing - I still have a visceral negative reaction to XSLT. I can't help it. I spent a couple years down that rabbit hole before realizing what a dead end it all was. I wrote and used my own publishing system using a custom pipeline of transforms, and started down the path of making a UI using XML and dynamic XSLT templates and more. All with a backend of Java and Enterprise Java Beans. The regret I feel about all this is palpable. I desperately want those hours and hours of coding back.