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Google is killing the open web, part 2

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418 points akagusu | 1 comments | 17 Nov 25 15:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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nwellnhof ◴[17 Nov 25 16:33 UTC] No.45955183[source]▶
Removing XSLT from browsers was long overdue and I'm saying that as ex-maintainer of libxslt who probably triggered (not caused) this removal. What's more interesting is that Chromium plans to switch to a Rust-based XML parser. Currently, they seem to favor xml-rs which only implements a subset of XML. So apparently, Google is willing to remove standards-compliant XML support as well. This is a lot more concerning.
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1. dietr1ch ◴[17 Nov 25 17:55 UTC] No.45956057[source]▶
> Currently, they seem to favor xml-rs which only implements a subset of XML.

Which seems to be a sane decision given the XML language allows for data blow-ups[^0]. I'm not sure what specific subset of XML `xml-rs` implements, but to me it seems insane to fully implement XML because of this.

[^0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs_attack