Proposal to Remove XSLT References from HTML Specification
By
troupo
Crusty in the right places. Worth the chew.
Summary
This GitHub pull request proposes removing all mentions of XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) from the HTML specification. The discussion involves technical considerations about XSLT usage patterns, including whether it's primarily used by large commercial sites that could easily update to polyfills or smaller personal sites that might be abandoned. The PR has support from at least two implementers with no opposition, and includes tests for review.
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Because if XSLT is mainly used by large commercial sites that are frequently updated, then deprecating the builtin support seems reasonable, since most of the sites will quickly update to include a polyfill.
But if XSLT is mainly used by small personal sites that were last updated years ago, then deprecating the builtin support would break those sites with no hope of them being fixed.
This PR removes all mention of XSLT in the html spec.
At least two implementers are interested (and none opposed).
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