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To be honest, the author is not wrong. It does look easier than XSLT.

But it doesn't look easier than XQuery.

> It does look easier than XSLT.

Not really. It may look more familiar if you can only think procedurally.

Not just difficult, but verbose. XML/DOM manipulations are very verbose, especially in Java. Xembly make them very simple and compact.

XML is not difficult to work with though.