Regardless of how educated you are, or how l33t of a h4x0r you are, there are few things as humbling as learning a new system/language/technology. Inevitably, you end up thrashing for hours on some trivial (although not intuitively obvious) detail.
(For those of you following along at home: while building an XSLT stylesheet today, Travis learned how important it is to pay attention to the xmlns attribute in source XML files. Here's a tip: that carefully-crafted XPath won't match if you leave it out. Heh.)
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