XSLT Removal Proposal Threatens Government and Regulatory Website Functionality
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Summary
The article discusses concerns about the HTML Standard proposal to remove XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) from web specifications. It highlights that the proposal fails to acknowledge existing real-world use cases, particularly noting that multiple government and regulatory websites across the world rely on XSLT and would break if it's removed. The article references Chrome's own Blink principles for web compatibility, which suggest that even small usage percentages (like 0.001% of page visits) should be considered non-trivial when making compatibility decisions.
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XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites across the world
As a general rule of thumb, 0.1% of PageVisits (1 in 1000) is large, while 0.001% is considered small but non-trivial
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