XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web

Posted by _kush 6/27/2025

XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web(github.com)

392 points | 325 commentspage 8

beAbU 6/27/2025|

Man, I'm sure this is good and all, but I still have ptsd from trying to understand XSLT back in my uni days 15 years ago...

sneak 6/27/2025||

TBH if we were going with old, bad standards, I would rather write m4 macros. It’s preinstalled everywhere too, unlike a browser.

podgorniy 6/27/2025||

Good old xslt. Was quite in the center of attention when strict xml was still a next standard candidate. html5 won.

kiliancs 6/27/2025||

- article schema - page schema - non-technical users can author & upload

And the browser takes care of the rendering.

Good times.

ryoshu 6/27/2025||

Blizzard uses/used XSLT for WoW.

calmbonsai 6/27/2025|

Was that before/after the LUA adoption?

shakna 6/27/2025||

Before. And after.

XSLT controls the styling, Lua the running functions. When Lua adjusts a visible thing, it generates XSLT.

"FrameXML" is a thin Lua wrapper around the base XSLT.

calmbonsai 6/28/2025||

WoW...literally and figuratively! Thanks for background. That explains some error messages I got waaaaaay back in the day.

pabs3 6/28/2025||

I wonder when browsers are going to start dropping support for old-web stuff.

flakiness 6/27/2025||

You call XML-based transformation "zero-config", I feel old.

stuaxo 6/27/2025||

Thanks, I've been wanting this for 25 years.

Devasta 6/27/2025||

Abandoning XML tech is was and forever will be the webs biggest mistake. The past 20 years has been just fumbling about trying to implement things that it would have provided easily.

preaching5271 6/27/2025|

Cant take it seriously with that language, sorry

More comments...