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Re:WhatWG: Proposal – Update XPath to at least v2.0 by sergeykish on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @02:00PM (#24768015)
I believe it is about rewriting implementation, not removing API [0].

> Deprecate, and consider removing, XSLT

> The consensus last time we considered this was that xml and xslt are too important for enterprise and we cannot remove them from the platform. Closing this bug to match that reality. We'll open a new bug if we ever decide to do this. [1] (Feb 22, 2019)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24767500

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=514995

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Re:WhatWG: Proposal – Update XPath to at least v2.0 by lucideer on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @06:44PM (#24771167)
You may be right, and later comments in the issue thread seem to row back on the original comment and hint at that. Here's hoping...
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