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by mstepniowski 5414 days ago
I've worked on a very similar project for WolneLektury.pl, but were fortunately allowed to use Python instead of Java.

XSLT and XPath proved to be tremendously useful, cutting development time at least in half. Thanks to the wonderful lxml library I could easily extend XSLT with any functionality I wanted. Of course I've kept the single best future of this domain language intact - its declarative nature.