Comment by patrickg

+1 - I have to deal with structured documents encoded in XML on a daily base, and most of the time there is no other tool for me than to write an XSLT stylesheet.

I really like the computational model of XSLT (push vs. pull), it is so elegant. But it takes a quite some time to fully understand what is going on.

What I think is bad, is that the infrastructure for XSLT is not perferct. There is only one good XSLT 2 processor that I know of, everything else is XSLT 1.

I am currently eliminating some XSLT scripts with custom (Go) programs, because of speed issues.