Comment by JimDabell

8 days ago

Take a look at this feed:

You’ll see if you view source that it’s an RSS (XML) file that your browser doesn’t know how to render. But at the top, there is this:

    <?xml-stylesheet href="/home/static/styles/pretty-feed-v3.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>

Your browser loads that XSLT and uses it to transcode the XML into HTML, which your browser can now render. The source is here:

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JimDabell

Thank you for that example, it does help understand how it could be useful.

Though I'm still unsure if supporting that use-case indefinitely is worth the long-term effort. In the same way that FTP support was dropped.