XSLT Facts

XSLT is short for Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Transformations and is an XML-based language for transforming XML documents into other XML documents.

These facts illustrate how evil XSLT is.

XSLT Facts

• XSLT is the work of Satan.
• XSLT is the worst thing since non-sliced bread.
• Mothers used to tell their children stories about XSLT to scare them.
• XSLT is the number one cause of programmers’ suicides since Visual Basic 1.0.
• The X in XSLT stands for eXtermination.
• XSLT makes the baby jesus cry.
• The only things worse than XSLT are Excel and Sugar-Less Tea (XSLT).
• XSLT is what Chuck Norris has nightmares of.
• Confucius says: “XSLT made me realise humanity was hopeless.”.
• Even APL won’t make friends with XSLT. (Zuu)
• God considered using XSLT as the tenth plague of Egypt, but then thought it was too evil.
• In Soviet Russia, XSLT codes you. Badly!
• Satan condemned Hitler for a million years of writing XSLT.
• The KGB used to torture their victims by having them look at scrolling XSLT code.
• “My name is Inigo Montoya. You forced my father to write XSLT. Prepare to die! And be thankful I don’t force you to write XSLT.”
• Stray XSLT code causes more deaths than road accidents.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil redirects to XSLT.
• We have nothing to fear but fear itself. Fear has nothing to fear but XSLT.
• Staring at XSLT code for one minute has a 67% chance of making one permanently blind.

Copyright and Licence

This document is Copyright by Shlomi Fish, 2009, and is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0 Unported (or at your option any later version).

For securing additional rights, please contact Shlomi Fish and see the explicit requirements that are being spelt from abiding by that licence.