> Precisely. The point is to enable XML with existing and well-understood
> technologies, to gain penetration with the widest audience possible and
> allow for the re-use of broadly understood technologies. XSLT is
> impenetrable to the average web developer.
>
Actually, CSS is impenetrable to the average web developer, but it has
the great virtue that you can get a lot of value from it without
penetrating it. Of course, the more features you add to CSS, the more
you put that property at risk.
Michael Kay
Saxonica