Understanding the XSLT Controversy: Web Standards Debate Sparks Community Discussion
By
bkardell
The kind of bagel that ruins lesser bagels for you.
Summary
The article addresses the recent controversy surrounding XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) in web development. It clarifies that Google did not unilaterally decide to remove XSLT from web standards, but rather the discussion originated from a GitHub issue in the WHATWG (Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group). The debate became heated, leading to personal attacks and eventual locking of the discussion thread, with subsequent counterproposals emerging for updating rather than removing XSLT from the web platform.
Key quotes
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The WHATWG issue 'Should we remove XSLT from the web platform?' was opened, debated, and eventually locked once the comment thread started spiraling into personal attacks.
Other discussions have since opened, such as a counterproposal to update XSLT in the web platform, thankfully with (thus far) much less heat.
The Web Discourse has been spicy of late, and XSLT is to blame. Well, sort of. It's complicated.
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