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I remember I was enjoying XSLT; I used it to create templates and, in the end, valid XHTML pages. I thought that's the future.
by kords 5y ago
I remember I was enjoying XSLT; I used it to create templates and, in the end, valid XHTML pages. I thought that's the future.
- dehrmann 5y agoIt is a functional language, and the cool kids are really into those.
- kiliancs 5y agoAt some point I made a news-articles site and I took that approach rather than databases: the owner would write XML files for each article that would be pretty simple: e.g. with tags like `title`, `image` (left, right, hero)`, some asides and some basic formatting for the body of the article, and XSLT, templates and CSS would make it a proper page. All the magic happened in the browser. I still think that's pretty cool.
- shados 5y agoThat's pretty much what it was designed to do. You could push it pretty far too. Relational databases at the time all implemented XML types, so you could have XML all the way down, and XSLT is how you'd go from point A to point B. But in the end, simpler alternatives prevailed.