I personally wouldn't use XSLT for web-content. I'd look at
CGI::Application,
Class::DBI, and
Template Toolkit. Everything you could ever want to do in a web-application-with-database can be done with those three modules.
Being right, does not endow the right to be rude; politeness costs nothing.
Being unknowing, is not the same as being stupid.
Expressing a contrary opinion, whether to the individual or the group, is more often a sign of deeper thought than of cantankerous belligerence.
Do not mistake your goals as the only goals; your opinion as the only opinion; your confidence as correctness. Saying you know better is not the same as explaining you know better.
