Comment by lucb1e
3 months ago
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.