[jgalt212]

I don't know if you're trolling, but here's how I'd do it in Python

  import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
  tree = ET.parse('data.xml')
  new_tree = my_transform(tree)
  new_tree.write("output.xml")

[ohyesyodo]

I'm not sure if you are trolling, but you left out the actual transform. In my experience, XSLT feels optimized towards transforms, which most other languages aren't. I also dislike XSLT, but whenever I do things like this in Python, C# or C++ it tends to get more messy then my XLTS when the transforms are nontrivial.

[jgalt212]

I'm getting downvotes here? Obviously, not from ohyesyodo b/c he does not have enough karma to allocate downvotes.

[ohyesyodo]

You are probably getting downloads from the fact that your response did not make any sense.

[jgalt212]

If you know Python, my response make perfect sense, in that it's easy to transform xml string -> python tree -> new python tree -> new xml string or json string or csv string.