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You've got to be kidding. I see the usefulness of XSLT, but still XSLT is a synonym to pain. Definitely one of the most ugly syntaxes I've ever.

It has a place, it can be useful, but I thoroughly detest it.

Not kidding, XSLT is functional, it's very different from imperative style OO, it's not complex and can get a lot done with few lines of code.

If you think it's painful and ugly, then don't dig any deeper in computer science than javascript.