Count me among those reeling in disgust: XML is unpleasant to work with, XSLT just adds layers of complexity on top of that. I wrote transforms for the few cas

Count me among those reeling in disgust: XML is unpleasant to work with, XSLT just adds layers of complexity on top of that. I wrote transforms for the few cases where I needed straight XML-to-XML conversions, but anything of complexity I retreated to a "real" language. It's obviously a personal choice, but I find working in XSL/XML like running through mud. The success of JSON is due in part to the low signal-to-noise inherent in XML, and maybe XSL's low popularity is likely due to the necessary complexity of dealing with unnecessarily noisy data. I sometimes daydream about a present where YAML got there first.