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Posted by _kush 6 days ago

XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web(github.com)
392 points | 324 commentspage 8
beAbU 6 days ago|
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 days ago||
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 days ago||
Good old xslt. Was quite in the center of attention when strict xml was still a next standard candidate. html5 won.
kiliancs 6 days ago||
- article schema - page schema - non-technical users can author & upload

And the browser takes care of the rendering.

Good times.

pabs3 5 days ago||
I wonder when browsers are going to start dropping support for old-web stuff.
ryoshu 6 days ago||
Blizzard uses/used XSLT for WoW.
calmbonsai 6 days ago|
Was that before/after the LUA adoption?
shakna 6 days ago||
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 5 days ago||
WoW...literally and figuratively! Thanks for background. That explains some error messages I got waaaaaay back in the day.
flakiness 6 days ago||
You call XML-based transformation "zero-config", I feel old.
stuaxo 6 days ago||
Thanks, I've been wanting this for 25 years.
Devasta 6 days ago||
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.
imdsm 6 days ago|
no more xml

me have make vomit from seeing xml

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