Comment by em-bee
2 months ago
the specific answer that i linked to does work. i have verified that too.
application/xml is not the same as application/rss+xml. application/xml also loads javascript just fine. again, i tested that. so far i have not found a single mimetype that can load xslt, but could not load javascript. i am coming to believe that there isn't one. if xslt works, then javascript works too.
whether javascript itself is a suitable replacement for xslt is not the question. your argument was that it is not possible to replace the builtin xslt support with anything written in javascript, because xml files can't load javascript.
since i have now verified that an xml file that can load xslt in the browser can also load javascript, this is proven wrong. all we need now is a good xslt implementation written in javascript or maybe a good binding to a wasm one and then we are ready to remove the builtin xslt support in the browser.
I too spent a chunk of time seeing what worked and what it looks like…
JS referenced by the XML can manipulate the XML but it frequently executes before the XML DOM is ready (even when waiting for onload) and so misses elements
So while possible it’s a pretty horrible experience to translate XML to HTML using JS - the declarative approach is more reliable and easier IMV
The XSLT polyfill doesn’t seem to work when loaded as a script in an XML doc but not quite sure why ATM
application/xml is commonly used for RSS feeds on static hosts because it’s the correct mimetype for say a feeds.xml response
https://github.com/mfreed7/xslt_polyfill/pull/5 - it will be able to do this soon.
nice. thanks for the link.
someone else mentioned xjslt here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44994310 which is an xslt 2.0 implementation. i have been trying to get that to work by loading the script directly into the xml data but so far could not figure out how to do it.