[xsl] Need some Advice

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Hello All,
I need some advice from you all. I have been working with XSLT for last 15
years and I have now come across a contract opportunity with a financial
firm in Australia and I am like weeks into it. I was told that the clients
are bound with XSLT1.0 and XSLT 2.0 does not work. I was wondering why it
does not work. I asked if they used MS parser etc. and nothing of that sort
is happening. When I looked into the code i figured why xslt2.0 wont work.
it wont because of the wrong coding. xml elements are coded as text using
< and > and the text  is not in the xsl:text and  xpaths are  all
unbelievable . No one with even 1 year of exp with xslt will even fathom
such xpaths. there are circular xpaths, no keys .. no variables. using the
same complicated xpaths over and over again in consecutive lines of code.
and its all a mess. Super mess and it makes me cry.  So messed up that you
can not format the code because you will break the spacing in the text
nodes..The reasoning.? The one who did the initial work was a contractor
who did not know Xslt.

part 2 of the story..
I started coding and I have a muscle memory of doing the things in a
certain way ( hopefully the right way ).. I was pulled in into a meeting
saying that my code is messed up and that I am doing things the way that is
against the coding standards practice of company .. every line of the code
was changed to how they do it/// . keys removed, xsl:text removed, and
every nightmare i imagine was asked to make and by me. I checked in the
code now they way they do, knowing very well that it is messy..

I am pulled everyday and told that my XSLT coding is not correct. I have
always stood as the XSLT conscience and people have learnt from me. Not
blowing trumpets of myself, but the current situation is very basic very
very basic. I did not do these mistakes on my first job with no experience.

What do I do??
1.Resign and let them be as they want to ?
2. continue and do the coding the way they want and hopefully I will get
used to it in a couple of months and I suffer until then

My heart breaks here to see the attitude that someone is holding my hand to
make me do bad things..... The attitude is clear. "you shall do as we say".
You can chuck your XSLT coding practices..

Makes me remember a contractor who came home to cut trees. I asked him to
do it a certain way and he said he wouldn't do it even if I gave him 2000
GBP.

Please advice.
Dr. Tapaal Dakota