Comment by bambax

I used to do a lot of XSLT coding, by hand, in text editors that weren't proper IDEs, and frankly it wasn't very hard to do.

There's something very zen-like with this language; you put a document in a kind of sieve and out comes a "better" document. It cannot fail; it can be wrong, full of errors, of course (although if you're validating the result against a schema it cannot be very wrong); but it will almost never explode in your face.

And then XSLT work kind of disappeared; I miss it a lot.