netbsd website written in xml! difficult and heavy?

[Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh%kathe.in@localhost>]

hello,

i just read on the netbsd projects list page that the website
infrastructure maintenance depends on xml, xslt and make.

does that mean that the website is written primarily in xml
and then transformed into (x)html, either via some tools before
the pages are put on the website, or at runtime?

isn't that kind of very heavy and complicated?

wouldn't markdown be a lot better than xml in terms of being
lighter and easier to work with because of it's simplicity?

best,

~mayuresh