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Re:XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulator... by ptx on Friday August 22, 2025 @05:32PM (#44990083)
What about content negotiation [1] based on the Accept header? If the client indicates a preference for HTML you could send it the human-readable page and otherwise you send the RSS feed. Wouldn't that work?

[1] https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/en/content-negotiation...

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Re:XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulator... by trekz on Friday August 22, 2025 @06:21PM (#44990580)
It can be done but it's not practical because most RSS readers don't even send an Accept header at all, let alone one with an XML mime type.
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Re:XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulator... by ptx on Saturday August 23, 2025 @07:29AM (#44995190)
But browsers do send the Accept header, so you could default to RSS for requests from other clients (such as RSS readers).
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