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Re:Experimental blog that is only available to read through ... by ciabattabread on Friday May 03, 2024 @11:54AM (#40249105)
Oh man, XSLT stylesheets. I remember working with that for a templating engine for a college project. But I've haven't dealt with web programming since just before the iPhone achieved mass popularity. Is XSLT still a thing?
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Re:Experimental blog that is only available to read through ... by dmorgan81 on Friday May 03, 2024 @12:58PM (#40249798)
I doubt it's still used much in web programming, but for backend data processing there are plenty of systems that output XML. XSLT is a great resource when you need to simplify a gnarly document.
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Re:Experimental blog that is only available to read through ... by neuronexmachina on Friday May 03, 2024 @01:38PM (#40250208)
They come up sometimes in the GIS space when working with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_Markup_Language
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Re:Experimental blog that is only available to read through ... by basscomm on Friday May 03, 2024 @02:18PM (#40250631)
> Is XSLT still a thing?

On the frontend, not really. I built a small blog with XML and XSLT a few years ago and I was able to get things to mostly work, but XML and XSLT support in browsers is bad. It's been stuck at 1.0 with missing features for years and Chromium and FireFox both keep threatening to remove it. One day they will follow through with it.

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Re:Experimental blog that is only available to read through ... by vallismortis on Friday May 03, 2024 @05:13PM (#40252461)
I love XSL. There are some problems that it is absolutely stellar at solving. NCBI recently changed their JATS schema. No need to change any code, just modify the stylesheet and everything hums along as if nothing changed.
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