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

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392 points _kush | 2 comments | 27 Jun 25 05:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.487s | source
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fergie ◴[27 Jun 25 07:09 UTC] No.44394408[source]▶
What is this "XSLT works natively in the browser" sourcery? The last time I used XSLT was like 20 years ago- but I used it A LOT, FOR YEARS. In those days you needed a massive wobbly tower of enterprise Java to make it work which sort of detracted from the elegance of XSLT itself. But if XSLT actually works in the browser- has the holy grail of host-anywhere static templating actually been sitting under our noses this whole time?
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1. deanebarker ◴[27 Jun 25 11:59 UTC] No.44396076[source]▶
> massive wobbly tower of enterprise Java to make it work

??

I was transforming XML with, like, three lines of VBScript in classic ASP.

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2. g8oz ◴[27 Jun 25 15:02 UTC] No.44397322[source]▶
The MSXML parser was pretty darn solid.