What's so bad about xsl:for-each?

Question

I hear time and time again about how you should avoid the use of XSLT for-each. That it\'s your inner imperative programming demon that should be banished.

What\'s

Answer 1

Templates tend to split up the code more nicely. Also, for-each loops suffer from the fact that people often come to them with the idea that they operate identically to the way for loops work in the major programming languages.