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If people are upset about xslt being removed, step 1 would have been to actually use it in a significant way on the web. Step 2 would have been to volunteer to
by bawolff 1y ago
If people are upset about xslt being removed, step 1 would have been to actually use it in a significant way on the web. Step 2 would have been to volunteer to maintain libxslt.
Everyone likes to complain as a user of open source. Nobody likes to do the difficult work.
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- starkparker 1y agoDidn't someone step up to volunteer ot maintain libxslt a few weeks ago? https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/-/issues/150 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/-/issues/150
- moomin 1y agoKnowing our luck it’s probably Jia Tan.
- rendaw 1y agoI'm not that familiar with XSLT but isn't it already quite hobbled? Can it be used in a significant way? Or is this a chicken-egg problem where proving it's useful requires the implementation to be filled out first.
- phatskat 1y agoOn the link in the post you can scroll down to someone’s comment with a few links to XSLT in action. It’s been years since I’ve touched it, but clicking the congressional bill XML link and seeing a perfectly formatted and readable page reminded me of exactly why XSLT has a place. To do the same thing without it, you’d need some other engine to parse the XML, convert it to HTML, and then ensure the proper styles get applied - this could of course be backend or frontend, either way it’s a lot of engineering overhead for a task that, with XSLT, requires just a stylesheet.
- bawolff 1y ago> To do the same thing without it, you’d need some other engine to parse the XML, convert it to HTML, and then ensure the proper styles get applied No, you can use <?xml-stylesheet ?> directives with CSS to attach a css stylesheet directly to an xml file. CSS is not as flexible as xslt, but this seems to be very simple formatting which is well within what css is capable of.
- bilog 1y agoCan CSS be used to produce plots from XML data? https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/plotting-xslt/ https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/plotting-xslt/ https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/plotting-sparklines-xslt/ https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/plotting-sparklines-xslt/
- troupo 1y agoDo Library of Congress and Congress count as significant usage? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44958929 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44958929
- ycombinatrix 1y agoNot to WhatWG apparently
- account42 1y agoWhat use would count as significant? Only if big corp like Google uses it? XSLT is used on the web. That's why people are upset about Google & friends removing it while ignoring user feedback.
- stuaxo 1y agoYep, there's a massive bias in companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft to only see companies their own size. Outside of this is a whole universe.