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- /*
- * This is a warning to any poor soul who may have to deal with this code.
- *
- * I took over this criminal piece of chaos from a monkey named Joel who I
- * assume had been given a typewriter by Mephistopheles himself. For reasons
- * I have yet been unable to fathom, he decided to patch together this thing
- * using a BaseX setup hardwired into an unfixably broken Manjaro VM, queried
- * by a handwritten plate of uncommented PHP spaghetti fit to feed an army
- * of people with a serious death wish, without any framework or CMS.
- * The very long BaseX script, very long PHP presenter and very long XSLT
- * stylesheet mostly perform the same heuristic document structuring for
- * different components and are supposed to produce compatible results, but I
- * bet they have mismatches somewhere.
- * Since Prof. T just wanted a few small functional enhancements, I decided
- * to just patch it and keep the general setup. Unless you were hired to
- * correct some spelling mistakes, DO NOT FOLLOW IN MY STEPS. Putting up with
- * this simulation of how a goldfish would design a system has literally
- * given me CLINICAL DEPRESSION. This is not an exaggeration, I am writing
- * this after a prolonged medical therapy - mostly successful, thanks for
- * asking, but not fun. I wouldn't wish this code on anybody who isn't a
- * manager at Oracle or Facebook, and therefore give you this sincere advice:
- *
- * Nuke this. Take the XSLT if you must, and then nuke the app and recreate it
- * in Django or whatever works for you. I would do it myself, but I risked a
- * relapse simply by opening this file again to write this comment.
- * Dear brother or sister, I wish you all the luck and strength in the world
- * and hope it will be enough.
- * Farewell.
- */
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