[basscomm]

> Using for-each or choose should be a sign you're doing it wrong.

I wouldn't say that I did it wrong, I just didn't do it efficiently. And I knew that at the time.

I appreciate the work, but I've said it elsewhere: I'm not a programmer. This was something I spent a couple of afternoons on five years ago and never looked at again after getting the results I wanted.

[ndriscoll]

Sorry, I communicated poorly there, and was kind of replying more to the other commenter. I actually meant to reinforce your point that you didn't need some complex hundreds-of-lines-of-code template (and that what you had wasn't complex), and if you wanted to put in that effort, you could've condensed it here too to just 2 small templates.

The thing about doing it wrong was meant as a reply to the comment upthread about for-each etc. being necessary. For something like you have, they're absolutely not. It's fine if that was the easiest way for you to do it though. My whole point was that I've always seen XSLT as much more of an approachable, enabling technology than modern JS approaches.