Writing text with XSLT is a delicate matter at best, and XSLT certainly
does not help with notational guarantees as it does when writing XML. You
might find it a better use of the respective strengths of the tools, for
the XSLT to emit simple XML and the Clojure program to read it into data
First off, unless you have a very good reason not to, you know the
differences, and you know what you are doing, always use the "read"
functions from clojure.edn rather than from clojure.core.
When you say "bad data", is it malformed (as in not valid EDN) or is it not
conforming to the expected
I am producing clojure data with XSLT. At first I embraced the result in a
vector of vectors so that a single (read-string) would read the whole
structure in one take.
Unfortunately when the XSLT sheet produces bad data I don't see easily what
is going wrong.
So is there an alternative for
