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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: 0.245s | source
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Aurornis ◴[17 Nov 25 16:31 UTC] No.45955140[source]▶
I have yet to read an article complaining about XSLT deprecation from someone who can explain why they actually used it and why it’s important to them.

> I will keep using XSLT, and in fact will look for new opportunities to rely on it.

This is the closest I’ve seen, but it’s not an explanation of why it was important before the deprecation. It’s a declaration that they’re using it as an act of rebellion.

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1. danwilsonthomas ◴[17 Nov 25 19:15 UTC] No.45956976[source]▶
Imagine you have users that want to view an XML document as a report of some kind. You can easily do this right now by having them upload a document and attaching a stylesheet to it. I do this to let people view after-game reports for a video game (Nebulous: Fleet Command). They come in as XML and I transform them to HTML. Now I do this all client-side using the browser support for XSLT and about 10 lines of javascript because I don't want to pay for and run a server for file uploads. But if I did the XSLT support in the browser would make it truly trivial to do.

Now this obviously isn't critical infrastructure, but it sucks getting stepped on and I'm getting stepped on by the removal of XSLT.