Good alternative to XSLT for generating text output from [closed]

I would like to create an online web application that performs text transformation from a visualized object into text output using a template system.

I would like to turn each of these instances of structured objects into text output based on a template specified at run time (from text file or database). (i.e., think these are blocks in a flowchart diagram with different attributes (but well-defined schema) in each instance.) The UI is out of scope here.

For example, the internal data for an object could be:

"InstanceName": "dummySquare"; "ShapeType": "Square"; "Length": "5"; "Unit": "cm"

"InstanceName": "dummySquare"; "ShapeType": "Square"; "Length": "5"; "Unit": "cm"

I would like to take that data and "mail merge" it with a text template to generate text based on the template.

Output could be something like:

<InstanceName value="dummySqure"><ShapeType value="Square" /><Length value="5" /><Unit value="cm" /></InstanceName>

<InstanceName value="dummySqure"><ShapeType value="Square" /><Length value="5" /><Unit value="cm" /></InstanceName>

I wonder if there is an elegant framework that would excel in this kind of transformation? Prefer solutions in languages that work well in web applications such as Python/Django, c# (ideally cross-platform), etc. If XML/XSLT is the best solution, please do let me know too!

Note: I haven't decided on the internal data format yet, but they will most likely be something like an XML or a JSON string, etc..

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It is easy with xml linq :

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Linq;

namespace ConsoleApplication1

public class Program

private static void Main()

string[,] input = "InstanceName", "dummySquare" , "ShapeType", "Square" , "Length", "5" , "Unit", "cm" ;

XElement instance = null;
for (int i = 0; i <= input.GetUpperBound(0); i++)

if (i == 0)

instance = new XElement(input[i, 0], new XAttribute("value", input[i, 1]));

else

instance.Add(new XElement(input[i,0], new XAttribute("value", input[i, 1])));