Anyone that has ever used xslt in a non-trivial way most likely understands that it is a terrible answer to just about any problem. Complexity for the sake of complexity is never a good path to follow.
I've written 7 books with it and those books have been published in print, PDF, epub, and mobi. I think that's non-trivial. But if you're referring to SOAP and WS* and all that stuff from the J2EE days, the I agree. That's a terrible terrible solution.
