Comment by samuell

2 months ago

In the early 2000s, XSLT allowed me as a late teenager with some HTML experience but without real coding skills (I could copy some lines of PHP from various forums and get it to work) to build a somewhat fancy intranet for a local car shop, complete with automatic styling of a feed of car info from a nationwide online sales portal.

Somehow it took me many years, basically until starting uni and taking a proper programming class, before I started feeling like I could realize my ideas in a normal programming language.

XSLT was a kind of tech that allowed a non-coder like me to step by step figure out how to get things to show on the screen.

I think XSLT really has some strong points, in this regard at least.

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