Comment by vidarh

There are more than enough options that there is rarely a compelling reason to suffer. Useful semantics rarely remains confined.

I spent too much time working with syntax to tolerate one that makes the code more time consuming to read or write (and that includes XSL; I worked a lot with XSL, and I'm not doing it again - if I need its semantics I'll implement something to do it with a less insane syntax).