Comment by pm24601

The problem with most tools is that they go through the "bright and shiny" stage:

  "New tool - cool! Lets use it on EVERY problem."

And are thus misused.

XSLT exists for inter-organizational data transfer and transformation. Don't use it for any other situation.

XML is a good (not perfect) persistent data storage mechanism where you need the data to outlast the program that created it.

I go into more explanation here: http://sworddance.com/blog/2014/12/06/xml-is-not-bad-just-mi...

Lets not blame a tool that was misused.