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extremely important? i use rss a lot and i have never seen anyone do this
by whimsicalism 1y ago
extremely important? i use rss a lot and i have never seen anyone do this
- Fileformat 1y 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