Comment by pornel

Zope was cool in that you couldn't generate ill-formed markup, and optionally wrapping something in `<a>` didn't need repeating the same condition for `</a>`.

However, it was much simpler imperative language with some macros.

XSLT is more like a set of queries competing to run against a document, and it's easy to make something incomprehensibly complex if you're not careful.