I had the same experience with XLST back in the day. At the time it was the perfect tool for my needs -- I no longer had to wheedle the back-end guys into giving me the specific data I needed, they could just dump it all on me in a big wad of XML and I could do anything I needed to it.
I mean, the whole time I knew it was a doomed language, far too philosophically pure to be practical, and the signs that XML was a mass hysteria were there from the beginning -- but it was exactly the tool I needed at the time I needed it.
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I had the same experience with XLST back in the day. At the time it was the perfect tool for my needs -- I no longer had to wheedle the back-end guys into giving me the specific data I needed, they could just dump it all on me in a big wad of XML and I could do anything I needed to it.
I mean, the whole time I knew it was a doomed language, far too philosophically pure to be practical, and the signs that XML was a mass hysteria were there from the beginning -- but it was exactly the tool I needed at the time I needed it.