Bertrand picks up a thread on cocoon-users... Here is my 2c

Anecdote: Some time ago I was being so utterly proud of a complex stylesheet (I seldom do this) I wrote. When presenting it to the local XSLT-guru I was told that the thing was utterly unreadable, and thus utterly flawed. This dispite the fact that it might have been working of course. Yeah, we tend to believe that it's not WellDone(tm) just because ItWorks(tm). The nice observation however was that he just simply rewrote the XSLT to solve the same problem (and I have to admit in a fraction of the time spent). But that is just what he did: he re-wrote the thing. Not looking at different variable names and such, Steven just produced the exact same XSLT solution, of which I could only testify that it was indeed utterly unreadable. ;-)

Since then we know that the biggest pitfall of the language is that it realy is a WRITE-ONLY language. (Meaning: never meant to be read by humans, including the author)...

I 'm sure the thread over at Bertrands' will give us new insights on what is the cause of this... Most likely will offer some interesting reads, but at the end of the day we'll just need to be brave and learn to live with this great technology?