Comment by considerjoost

If you ever find yourself somewhere you have to work with XML data and the people there use things like XSLT (and suicide is not an option) you should consider using Joost. Joost implements the lesser known STX language. It's a far cry from Haskell or other better tools but nonetheless more useful and practical than XSLT for tasks like cleaning and extracting interesting things from blobs of XML. It's available here: http://joost.sourceforge.net