XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web
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Re: XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web
#2I looked into this a while ago and concluded that it works fine but browsers are making stroppy noises about deprecating it, so ended up running the transform locally to get html5. Disappointing.
Re: XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web
#3Me simple man. Me see caveman readme, me like. Sometimes me feel like caveman hitting keyboard to make machine do no good stuff. But sometimes, stuff good. Me no do websites or web things, but me not know about XSLT. Me sometimes hack XML. Me sometimes want show user things. Many many different files format makes head hurt. Me like pretty things though. Me might use this.
Thank you reading specs.
Thank you making tool.
Re: XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web
#4Many, many years back I used Symphony21[0] for an events website. It’s whole premise was build an XML structure via blueprints and then your theme is just XSLT templates for pages.
Gave it up because it turns out the little things are just a pain. Formatting dates, showing article numbers and counts etc.
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#5Early in my career I worked on a carrier's mobile internet portal in the days before smartphones. It was XSLT all the way down, including individual XSLT transforms for every single component the CMS had for every single handset we supported (hundreds) as they all had different capabilities and browser bugs. It was not that fun to write complex logic in haha but was kind of an interesting thing to work on, before iPhone etc came along and everything could just render normal websites.
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#6me busy fixing asan, "illegal instruction", blah blah blah, me sad and frustrated, much scowling.
me come to hn, see xml build system, me happy, much smiling, me hit up arrow, me thank good stranger.
Re: XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web
#7Blizzard uses/used XSLT for WoW.
Re: XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web
#8Many, many years back I used Symphony21[0] for an events website. It’s whole premise was build an XML structure via blueprints and then your theme is just XSLT templates for pages. Gave it up because it turns out the little things are just a pain. Formatting dates, showing article numbers and counts etc. [0] https://www.getsymphony.com/
Wow, blast from the past.
Re: XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web
#9Sometimes I wish we could have kept XML alive alongside JSON.. I miss the comments, CDATA etc, especially when you have to serialize complex state. I know there are alternatives to JSON like YAML but I felt XML was better than YAML. We adopted JSON for its simplicity but tried to retrofit schema and other things that made XML complex. Like we kind of reinvented JSON Schema, and ended up like what XSD did decades ago and still lacking a good alternative to XSLT..
Re: XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web
#10Whoa, I just realized how much Zope’s page templates were basically XSLT that looked slightly different.
This gives me new appreciation for how powerful XSLT is, and how glad I am that I can use almost anything else to get the same end results. Give me Jinja or Mustache any day. Just plain old s-exprs for that matter. Just please don’t ever make me write XML with XML again.