Ah my apologies, I should have done a better search. Thought it would be worth posting since I have seen it discussed a bit in my area of work [libraries / digital humanities].
xslt really seems to get acceptance from non-programmers who want it to perform a specific functions [like convert some hand crafted xml into html] and hatred from programmers who point out lots of problems with it as a language. I guess I would never even have thought of it as a language until I heard these complaints - I saw it more as a toolkit for, well, performing very specific functions.
No problem. It's good to point out the reposts since it helps identify urls that should be investigated to figure out why the deduping algo didn't catch it.
xslt really seems to get acceptance from non-programmers who want it to perform a specific functions [like convert some hand crafted xml into html] and hatred from programmers who point out lots of problems with it as a language. I guess I would never even have thought of it as a language until I heard these complaints - I saw it more as a toolkit for, well, performing very specific functions.