Extending the list User vlozak Jan 7 2010 xsl syntax is extremely verbose and xsl stylesheets can become very difficult to understand as a result We have developed a significant code base of long xsl scripts for data and open document conversion and only a small fraction of our IT staff have had the patience to work out how to maintain them because of the vagaries of in browser support xslt 2 in particular seems to be having problems gaining traction This is disappointing as many of the xslt 2 specific numeric and text functions would greatly simplify xsl scripting on the plus side xsl seems to be the most efficient scripting language for robustly and rapidly extracting fragments of knowledge from very complex xml data sets