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Re:Show HN: This website is valid JSON by mark_and_sweep on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @08:41PM (#25354331)
XSLT is the only way to do HTML templating on the client without using JS. I think that is valuable.
Re:Show HN: This website is valid JSON by mark_and_sweep on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @09:50PM (#25354743)
HTML templating with XSLT may be used to save data, too.

For example, if you build a social network profile page using XSLT, alice.xml and bob.xml can reference the same profile.xsl stylesheet which converts the XML profile data to the rendered HTML page. Since the profile.xsl stylesheet can be cached, whenever a new profile is visited, only the profile data in XML needs to be transferred.

Note that the templating can also be used to save data when rendering a single page. Imagine a Twitter clone that displays a list of tweets. If, hypothetically, 80 characters of Tweet data plus 500 characters of XSL template, produce 250 characters of HTML markup, you only need 3 tweets to start saving data (250x3=750 > 500+3x80=740).

Re:Show HN: This website is valid JSON by vincnetas on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @01:12AM (#25355848)
XML+XSTL twitter clone in showHN in 3... 2... 1...
Re:Show HN: This website is valid JSON by arpa on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @12:10AM (#25355582)
XML+XSLT is vastly, vastly underrated.
Re:Show HN: This website is valid JSON by durnygbur on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @04:23AM (#25356802)
Last time I was playing with these were IE6/7 times.
Re:Show HN: This website is valid JSON by dylan604 on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @01:12AM (#25355849)
and vastly misunderstood.