I created a repo @Codeberg for my really simple #XSL-weblog:
https://codeberg.org/harlows/xsl-weblog

It's part of my tiny attempt to preserve #XSLT and very much a work-in-progress. Thus far it's really just a repackaging of Evan Widloski's example:
https://github.com/Evidlo/xsl-website

You can see it evolve here:
https://blog.harlow.net.nz/
or follow the #RSS feed:
https://blog.harlow.net.nz/feed.xml
Transformed by the magic of #XSLT!

@stephenharlow @Codeberg I am interested in this debate

I worked quite extensively with XML in the day. I am not a fan, now, after loving it when I first learnt about it then using it

A good idea to a Computist, but in practice really hard to work with. Much harder than you'd expect, hearing about it

Is there anything worth saving in XML technologies? Can we do better?

@stephenharlow @Codeberg I am interested in this debate

I worked quite extensively with XML in the day. I am not a fan, now, after loving it when I first learnt about it then using it

A good idea to a Computist, but in practice really hard to work with. Much harder than you'd expect, hearing about it

Is there anything worth saving in XML technologies? Can we do better?

@worik @stephenharlow @Codeberg

my reaction has long been the opposite. I used to hate XML and how it was being forcefully thrown everywhere regardless of whether it made sense or not. These days, I realize what a powerful, unifying language it was, and what a pity it has been that an overreaction lead to it being disregarded even when it made sense. And even if I see why in environments like e.g. the web one would want to be more tolerant of faults, the underlying principles remain valid.

@worik @stephenharlow @Codeberg

the main reason why it remains a language difficult to work with is that the tooling around it has remained substantially underdeveloped (e.g. there's very few good XML editors, and parsers and processors have maintained a largely passive approach to error reporting —compare e.g. how much more C++ error reporting has evolved), despite the language itself allowing much more featurefull editing and processing possibilities.

@oblomov @stephenharlow @Codeberg

The difficulty I have with it is editing a file by hand. There is too much mark up

I am not a specialist but I have seen ppl who know more than me talk of ratios of markup to content. XML is hard by that measure

Attributes are an utter pita.

I was using JSON , which is easier, but I am back to trying to do line orientated CSV, but it is not always suitable