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> As recently as 2008 (ahem), I implemented a website transforming XML into HTML/DOM using xsl-stylesheet instructions and it worked pretty well on IE6 and FF b
by johnchristopher 10y ago
> As recently as 2008 (ahem), I implemented a website transforming XML into HTML/DOM using xsl-stylesheet instructions and it worked pretty well on IE6 and FF back then.
Oh ! Me too ! It was based on ATOM and PHP to recreate the files when content was updated.
- jacobush 10y agoI did it in 2010, in C. Must have been insane.
- marktangotango 10y agoAs some one who has modernized these apps: screw you guys. That stuff is dying and deserves to die. Yeah, good developers can do elegant things wit it, but for the remaining 90%, well they create layered spaghetti: xsl, html, JavaScript, and that's just the front end. Back end is xml and xsl pipelines with Java/c# intermixed. I've seen business logic in all these layers, in the same api call. It is truly astounding.
- nikdaheratik 10y agoThis is the double edged sword with XSL as it has enough that it can do that it's hard to tell what you should do at that layer. When it's useful though, it's very useful.