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I have lost much of the content I created and published in the early 90s and 2000s, and mourn it in a way because my memory is failing and I wish to learn what

I have lost much of the content I created and published in the early 90s and 2000s, and mourn it in a way because my memory is failing and I wish to learn what has changed in my own life. But you're right.

ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
The one piece that I really miss, is a detailed walkthrough of some really esoteric XSLT code. It was a long, well-demonstrated piece that I published on WebmasterWorld (I think they are still around). It was done around twenty years ago (no less than eighteen). It’s absolutely worthless (XSLT -shudder), but I was quite proud of it.
- chaxor 5y ago
  Despite how ugly xslt may look, and how little it's used, I think it actually solved a problem in parsing xml on streams (xslt 3.0 I think?) in a way that really isn't that simple (or used often) in any standard languages. I have done quite a few xml parsing scripts in python/Julia/etc, but despite xpaths on dom being so much easier to write, the OOM problems are abundant. XSLT I think had some good ideas for making xml parsing more performant while avoiding some of the major issues that crop up when processing huge amounts of data.