Comment by mmastrac
3 months ago
This would be sad, but I think it's sadder that we didn't spend more effort integrating more modern XSLT. It was painful to use _but_ if it had a few revisions in the browser I think it would have been a massive contender to things like React.
XML was unfairly demonized for the baggage that IBM and other enterprise orgs tied to it, but the standard itself was frigging amazing and powerful.
I have to agree. I liked XSLT and would have done much more with just a few additions to it.
Converting a simple manually edited xml database of things to html was awesome. What I mostly wanted the ability to pass in a selected item to display differently. That would allow all sorts of interactivity with static documents.