Comment by hereonout2

I used it everyday for the first 5 years of my career, got my first big job off the back of a shorter graduate job that exposed me to it.

It will always have a special heart too.

However, in the way it was used in my roles at least - I found it enforced far too rigid a separation between the data and the presentation.

There were multiple times a backend could not perform some function or transformation of the data, for various and always non technical reasons.

That left it to the xslt developers to figure out a solution, and sometimes due to the limits of the language that involved writing a custom java function / xslt plugin.

Things that were incredibly simple when some sort of scripting language is available in your frontend web app could be incredibly convoluted when all you had was an xslt processor.