Comment by bambax

> the same pain you felt debugging it

XSLT is "right the first time"; I have had to do corrections and evolutions but very rarely (never?) have I had to hunt for a weird unexplained behavior.

Of course I have seen horrible XSLTs, but horrible is in no way limited to XSLT (the only thing that's XSLT-specific is when people try to do imperative programming in XSLT).

I'm currently trying to make sense of a database model where every. single. property. is a flag in just one table (isClient, isProspect, isActive, isAForeigner, isMale, isFemale, etc. etc.)

No XSLT involved whatsoever. Big pain.