Comment by 4ndrewl
3 months ago
XSLT was the blockchain, nft, metaverse of the mid?-2000s. Was totally going to solve all of our problems.
3 months ago
XSLT was the blockchain, nft, metaverse of the mid?-2000s. Was totally going to solve all of our problems.
I thought XML was that big hype, not XSLT. That I somehow never saw mentioned that you can do actual webpages and other useful stuff with it is probably why I never understood why people thought XML was so useful ^^' I thought it was just another data format like JSON or CSV, and we might as well have written HTML as {"body":{"p":"Hello, World!"}} and that it's just serendipity that XML was earlier
XML was the data storage - IBM DB9 supported it natively in a similar way to how Postgres supports jsonb.
You'd use XSLT to translate your data into a webpage. Or a mobile device that supported WML/WAP. Or a desktop application.
That was the dream, anyhow.
Xslt actually solved a lot of problems for me last week in processing json to relational data
Huh! I'm learning a lot here today. Trying to find more info, indeed the top answer on stackoverflow on the "XSLT equivalent for JSON" is XSLT itself: https://stackoverflow.com/a/49011455/. Hard to find how you'd actually use it though, basically all results I get for "xslt json" are about different tools that convert between JSON and XML
At the time I ran across lots of real websites using it. I successfully used it myself at least once too. Off the top of my head, Blizzard was using it to format WoW player profiles for display in the browser.
But XSLT is at least actually useful
So is metaverse, at least depending on the definition. Second Life is mentioned as an example of one on Wikipedia and that died pretty quickly because it was more of a mechanism instead of a destination in itself. The general concept of hanging out online with an avatar and friends is not gone at all
5G was another hype word. Can't say that's not useful! I don't really notice a difference with 4G (and barely with 3G) but apparently on the carrier side things got more efficient and it is very widely adopted
I guess there's a reason the Gartner hype cycle ends with widespread adoption and not with "dead and forgotten": most things are widely picked up for a reason. (Having said that, if someone can tell me what the unique selling point of an NFT was, I've not yet understood that one xD)