XSLT rocks. I have a team who come from business analyst and accounting backgrounds, we manage hundreds of reports for client data to their banks and could never manage it without something simple like XSLT to deal with it all.

You give the employee IntelliJ or some IDE of your choice and a way of uploading the transforms into your application and they'll work away. All the complaints about namespaces and the like that your hear online? Never hear from them, they dont think about it, just stick the declarations up in the top of the file and work away.

Abandoning XML has been one of softwares biggest mistakes.