Comment by VMG

Since it is the hot topic of the day, let me add this perspective: http://www.snoyman.com/blog/2012/04/xslt-rant.html

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> I'm not even talking about the hideously verbose syntax, or the completely obtuse data model. The fact that you can't know what any single line of code does without reviewing every other line in the program makes this language an abomination.