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Re:I'm Shadow Banned by DuckDuckGo (and Bing) by Semaphor on Sunday January 15, 2023 @08:58AM (#34389405)
> "An elegant weapon for a more... civilized age."

One of the ideas people had back then was having a product catalog in XML that your tool would give you, and that you could upload to your website and display as a nice website via XSLT.

It was such a fascinating technology when I learned about it, but I’m not sure if it ever saw any serious use? Maybe in enterprise?

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Re:I'm Shadow Banned by DuckDuckGo (and Bing) by jbotdev on Sunday January 15, 2023 @09:14AM (#34389527)
It’s still used by the SEC to render company filings on their EDGAR site. I can’t find the exact files/docs, but I’ve rendered filings like this using the XML and XSLT they provide: https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/320193/00003...
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Re:I'm Shadow Banned by DuckDuckGo (and Bing) by mileza on Sunday January 15, 2023 @09:28AM (#34389630)
I don't know if that's related to your question, but I've used XSLT templates with Apache FOP before to render PDF documents.
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Re:I'm Shadow Banned by DuckDuckGo (and Bing) by baald on Sunday January 15, 2023 @02:44PM (#34392525)
Well, I'm having the ... pleasure ... of learning it now, as much of CheetahMail's templating system uses it (at least as initially configured by their professional services team. The company I work for just switched over and had them do the initial implementation). Just a data point.
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Re:I'm Shadow Banned by DuckDuckGo (and Bing) by Semaphor on Monday January 16, 2023 @12:25AM (#34397137)
We are using a mail system that uses a special version of VbScript. Not sure you’d want to trade ;)
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Re:I'm Shadow Banned by DuckDuckGo (and Bing) by antod on Sunday January 15, 2023 @07:13PM (#34395148)
It had some use. I'm pretty sure IE used to support client side transformations when rendering XML that linked an XSLT file. I know one SaaS used to do that before they rearchitected their front end.

But XSLT was not fun work with.

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Re:I'm Shadow Banned by DuckDuckGo (and Bing) by Semaphor on Monday January 16, 2023 @12:24AM (#34397132)
IIRC all browsers supported it, I played around with it back then. I just wondered about in-the-wild use. Though the others comments say there is/was some.
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Re:I'm Shadow Banned by DuckDuckGo (and Bing) by rzzzt on Monday January 16, 2023 @01:06PM (#34403558)
I had a brief encounter with XSLT in a university course that used Oracle's software suite for demonstration purposes. I think it was related to the XSQL framework: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B10501_01/appdev.920/a96621/adx09...
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