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Re:XPath is actually pretty useful once it stops being confu... by nightwolf on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @01:40AM (#6673579)
Just curious: what are the "bigger and better things" that have replaced XSLT? From what I can tell, it's still being used quite a lot, especially in the world of structured documentation. For something like transforming massive amounts of XML with a great amount of structural variety to another format, XSLT would certainly be my first choice.
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Re:XPath is actually pretty useful once it stops being confu... by habosa on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @12:37PM (#6676492)
I'd say a comparable new piece of technology is AngularJS + HTML + CSS with JSON as the data format. In the end you're still transforming an easily-exchanged data format to a visual display, but with all of the new things that come with Web 2.0 and the thick client model.

It still can't turn a pile of XML into a pile of PDFs though, so XSLT is definitely king in some arenas.

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