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[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 69 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I recently had to work with XSLT (may it's inventor burn in hell for their crimes).

That's pretty much programming in XML. It's probably the worst possible thing.

[–] LukeChriswalker@feddit.de 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

XSLT is fine

If you have a program generate it

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 21 points 2 years ago

Sadly, it was done manually. I had to migrate it to this brand new bleeding edge technology, Apache Velocity. That's not great either, but it's much less terrible than XSLT.

For that task I had to learn two templating languages at the same time to port it from one to the other. Wasn't an easy task.

[–] aksdb@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Pff. I know someone who generated programs using XSLT.

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