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Re:Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog by TeMPOraL on Thursday January 30, 2025 @11:56AM (#42879629)
SGML.

Just joking. Sort of. There's apparently a modern tool you can use to transpile SGML to HTML[0], and I'm itching to try it out.

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[0] - https://sgmljs.net/docs/producing-html-tutorial/producing-ht... - yes, it's an NPM package, and yes, you can run it in the browser, but you can also use it on a server, or as a static site generator.

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Re:Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog by spc476 on Thursday January 30, 2025 @10:04PM (#42884367)
The non-blog parts of my site [1] are in XML and I use xsltproc to generate HTML. It's technically a static-site generator. It works, but my God, is XSLT a verbose (functional) language.

[1] https://www.conman.org/

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Re:Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog by pyuser583 on Thursday January 30, 2025 @10:48PM (#42884547)
I loved XSLT. I thought it was the most perfect language ever created. What was I thinking?
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