Comment by froh

yes, XML is very mature, and fun if you have access to advanced tools.

however most oss builds on libxml which is stuck in xslt 1 and xpath 2 iirc...

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https://ballerina.io/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clark_(programmer)#Caree...