Re:Show HN: This website is valid JSON
by ChrisMarshallNY on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @04:51AM
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One of the big problems with XSLT, is that XSLT only started to become useful after Version 2.0, and wasn’t supported by languages at that level. This was the main reason I stopped using it.
2.0 was (maybe still is?) supported by Saxon, a proprietary library, needing to be licensed. Built-in support was capped at 1.5.
If I remember, in order to run XSLT 2.0, you had to license and install Saxon on your server (i believe it was a Java application, meaning the server need to have a JVM), then call it, using system calls. Awkward, at best.
But this was many moons ago. I suspect/hope that things have improved, since then.
2.0 was (maybe still is?) supported by Saxon, a proprietary library, needing to be licensed. Built-in support was capped at 1.5.
If I remember, in order to run XSLT 2.0, you had to license and install Saxon on your server (i believe it was a Java application, meaning the server need to have a JVM), then call it, using system calls. Awkward, at best.
But this was many moons ago. I suspect/hope that things have improved, since then.