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Oh man, XSLT stylesheets. I remember working with that for a templating engine for a college project. But I've haven't dealt with web programming since just bef
by ciabattabread 2y ago
Oh man, XSLT stylesheets. I remember working with that for a templating engine for a college project. But I've haven't dealt with web programming since just before the iPhone achieved mass popularity. Is XSLT still a thing?
- dmorgan81 2y agoI doubt it's still used much in web programming, but for backend data processing there are plenty of systems that output XML. XSLT is a great resource when you need to simplify a gnarly document.
- neuronexmachina 2y agoThey come up sometimes in the GIS space when working with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_Markup_Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_Markup_Language
- basscomm 2y ago> Is XSLT still a thing? On the frontend, not really. I built a small blog with XML and XSLT a few years ago and I was able to get things to mostly work, but XML and XSLT support in browsers is bad. It's been stuck at 1.0 with missing features for years and Chromium and FireFox both keep threatening to remove it. One day they will follow through with it.
- vallismortis 2y agoI love XSL. There are some problems that it is absolutely stellar at solving. NCBI recently changed their JATS schema. No need to change any code, just modify the stylesheet and everything hums along as if nothing changed.