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One extremely important use-case is for RSS/Atom feeds. Right now, clicking on a link to feed brings up a wall of XML (or worse, a download link). If the feed
by Fileformat 11mo ago
One extremely important use-case is for RSS/Atom feeds. Right now, clicking on a link to feed brings up a wall of XML (or worse, a download link). If the feed has an XSLT stylesheet, it can be presented in a way that a newcomer can understand and use.
- mbo 11mo agoThis is why I've needed to use XLST, to style my personal RSS feed. Great guide for this: https://andrewstiefel.com/style-atom-xsl/ https://andrewstiefel.com/style-atom-xsl/ Looks like it's been raised on the whatwg issue too: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523#issuecomment-3151679326 https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523#issuecomment-315...
- whimsicalism 11mo agoextremely important? i use rss a lot and i have never seen anyone do this
- Fileformat 11mo agoThis is exactly my point: everyone here is tech-savvy and knows what to do with an RSS/Atom link. So we don't see a need for XSLT. But someone who hasn't seen/used an RSS reader will see a wall of plain-text gibberish (or a prompt to download the wall of gibberish). XSLT is currently the only way to make feeds into something that can still be viewed. I think RSS/Atom are key technologies for the open web, and discovery is extremely important. Cancelling XSLT is going in the wrong direction (IMHO). I've done a bunch of things to try to get people to use XSLT in their feeds: https://www.rss.style/ https://www.rss.style/ You can see it in action on an RSS feed here (served as real XML, not HTML): https://www.fileformat.info/news/rss.xml https://www.fileformat.info/news/rss.xml