Using Annotations to Transform LINQ to XML Trees in an XSLT Style (Improved Approach)

You can use LINQ to XML to transform XML trees with the same level of power and expressability as with XSLT, and in many cases more than with XSLT.

One of the reasons that XSL is so powerful is that you can write multiple rules to transform a node. The first rule that matches is the one that is applied.