XSLT was an interesting language that unfortunately tried to solve the wrong problem. What we needed was AWK for the DOM. Instead we got a vision where XML woul

XSLT was an interesting language that unfortunately tried to solve the wrong problem. What we needed was AWK for the DOM. Instead we got a vision where XML would be used to transform other forms XML into yet OTHER forms of XML, and the result was a mess. I think there's still a place for an "AWK for the DOM". The XML extensions to gawk are interesting, but not really what I'm talking about; it works at a lower level (more like an "AWK for SAX"). jQuery comes closer to what I'm talking about, but I still wouldn't really call it a clean match.