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The two problems here are that XML/XSLT are horrible to work with (to the extent that you want to achieve what they were supposed to, you do it with the modern "single page app" style where you write javascript that retrieves data from an API and renders it into a UI) and that no-one actually wants to separate the content from the presentation anyway.

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Except you just contradicted yourself. If everyone wants to use JavaScript frameworks and APIs for data they they ARE separating the content from the presentation.

If you think JS frameworks are used only for data manipulation, you're sorely mistaken. Runtime styling has been a primary aim of JavaScript code since even before the popularization of jQuery.

> If everyone wants to use JavaScript frameworks and APIs for data they they ARE separating the content from the presentation.

That's not true. The DOM that the javascript frameworks mangle around isn't data but UI elements, some of which happen to be data.

> no-one actually wants to separate the content from the presentation anyway.

Except of course the developers who are using react & friends because it allows them to separate content(data) from presentation(view).

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