Comment by trympet
5 months ago
I recently had the pleasure of using XSLT after never having seen it before. I used it to transform a huge 130K line XML manifest with MAPI property metadata into C# source code. It was so simple, readable, and intuitive to use.
I learnt XSLT in university back in the early/mid part of the first decade of this century. I didn't much enjoy it. I've never used it, but all my career I've had to deal with terrible ad hoc templating languages. I recently had total freedom to choose what terrible ad hoc templating language to use, and I chose XSLT. I actually totally liked it: and it seemed to have everything I've needed. In previous jobs, there was always tickets that amounted to "make a fork of the terrible ad hoc templating language and hack it until it does this", but I reckon XSLT could do everything and then some.