Actually, I find the level of effort for XML about equivalent to HTML for the sorts of things I do with it (probably similar to the things you do). The more I tweak and customize the HTML, the better XML looks, as I can apply the tweaks automatically and uniformly by simply reprocessing the XML originals (I edit mine with vi for the most part).
However, transforming XML with stylesheets can quickly get into deep magic if you want to get creative (which I'll take as a given). Personally, I have a great deal of fun making stylesheets do intricate things (e.g. stylesheets generating stylesheets, stylesheets transforming XML into troff), but "normal" people try to avoid such things. I even have stylesheets that take parameters from the command line, do I18N on the fly, and call Java for various tasks.
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I do with it (probably similar to the things you do). The more I tweak and customize the
HTML, the better XML looks, as I can apply the tweaks automatically and uniformly by
simply reprocessing the XML originals (I edit mine with vi for the most part).
However, transforming XML with stylesheets can quickly get into deep magic if you
want to get creative (which I'll take as a given). Personally, I have a great deal of
fun making stylesheets do intricate things (e.g. stylesheets generating stylesheets,
stylesheets transforming XML into troff), but "normal" people try to avoid such things.
I even have stylesheets that take parameters from the command line, do I18N on the
fly, and call Java for various tasks.