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i have seen a few people arguing for xslt recently; weird proposition!
- libs have a cost (browser download size, update work, integration, security risk)
- xslt 1.0 is not good.
https://okmij.org/ftp/papers/SXSLT-talk.pdf - nobody uses it. (or rather, 0.001% of page-loads use it.)
- regardless of your pov on xml, xml web documents are entirely a lost cause; the web is html, and html is not xml.
- there are so many better alternatives! even a simple page with a script tag can do a better job!
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2025-08-18 08:30:57 UTCEvent JSON
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