here on HN I dare to out myself as a DSSSL lover, the scheme based predecessor of xslt.

I still can't wrap my head around how the neat and clean dsssl syntax, a real programming language, was replaced by an xml notation for the same: for cuntional code and a framework. because semantically, that's what xslt is: a functional language with a framework, geared at transforming xml instances.

but that syntax... and of course a much inferior and more obscure language than scheme underneath dsssl.