[cryptonector]

I was going to say what GP said, but, yeah, XSLT is just no fun to write by comparison to SQL.

[atemerev]

Hardly anybody was using XSLT even when XML was all the rage. Python scripts work just fine.

[cryptonector]

XSLT 1 was very limited. XSLT 2 was too late. That's my take. I actually like XSLT 2, but it's so verbose... -- it's horrible.

Once in a while I dream of adding proper XML support to jq just to be able to use jq as a pithy alternative to XSLT.

[smartmic]

XQuery is easier and can be fun to use!