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

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392 points _kush | 1 comments | 27 Jun 25 05:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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CiaranMcNulty ◴[27 Jun 25 06:41 UTC] No.44394259[source]▶
It's sad how the bloat of '00s enterprise XML made the tech seem outdated and drove everyone to 'cleaner' JSON, because things like XSLT and XPath were very mature and solved a lot of the problems we still struggle with in other formats.

I'm probably guilty of some of the bad practice: I have fond memories of (ab)using XSLT includes back in the day with PHP stream wrappers to have stuff like `<xsl:include href="mycorp://invoice/1234">`

This may be out-of-date bias but I'm still a little uneasy letting the browser do the locally, just because it used to be a minefield of incompatibility

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1. kllrnohj ◴[27 Jun 25 17:05 UTC] No.44398418[source]▶
The game Rimworld stores all its game configuration data in XML and uses XPath for modding and it's so incredibly good. It's a seriously underrated combination for enabling relatively stable local modifications of data. I don't know of any other game that does this, probably because XML has a reputation of being "obsolete" or whatever. But it's just such a robust system for this use case.

https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Modding_Tutorials/PatchOperati...