[eponeponepon]

Conversely, I personally find it very readable, and enjoyable to write; don't forget, when people talk about using the right tool for a job, it's not all about the language and the task - the dynamic between the person and the language is just as important :-)

[Latty]

The vast majority of people find XSLT to be an unreadable mess - and for any non-trivial project that requires collaboration, just because it's possible for one person to like it doesn't make it a good choice.

If most people agree a representation is terrible, it's a bad choice for anything serious, because suddenly only a subset of your team or contributors can work on it effectively.

There is a reason XML isn't used as syntax for programming languages. Anyone claiming that an `if` construct, for example, is well represented by a mess of XML tags has a different brain to me and the vast majority of people I've met.

XSLT was meant to be a general-purpose tool. Having a syntax that the vast majority of people find incredibly hard to work with is clearly a huge problem with the spec.