Timeline for Why is XSLT so rarely used on the web?
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| Oct 23, 2018 at 19:33 | comment | added | George Sovetov | I'm not sure what are "service calls". To show a page in the browser you have to make a HTML somehow. The "default" way to do this on the client side is to get JSON and make chunks of HTML code. One can do that by manipulating with jQuery or use something line Angular. Both of them are implemented in JS. | |
| Oct 23, 2018 at 14:49 | comment | added | Esben Skov Pedersen | @GeorgeSovetov who is doing templating in js (for service calls)? A simple XML serializer should do the job. | |
| Oct 21, 2018 at 20:51 | comment | added | Michael Kay | Well, you certainly demonstrated that it's a question that attracts opinion-based answers... | |
| Oct 21, 2018 at 16:34 | comment | added | JacquesB | I think the ugliness of a language is irrelevant if it serves a relevant use case. Just witness the success of JavaScript. The problem with XSLT is the use case just isn't there. | |
| Oct 21, 2018 at 14:16 | comment | added | George Sovetov | @EsbenSkovPedersen to work with services that speak HTTP/XML from browser and, at the same time, avoid templating in JS. | |
| Oct 21, 2018 at 13:14 | comment | added | Esben Skov Pedersen | @GeorgeSoverov why is it important to be supported everywhere? It only needs to be supported on your server. | |
| Oct 21, 2018 at 13:08 | comment | added | RubberDuck | XSLT is an excellent functional language IMO. Where it falls down is in the way it mixes view w/ transformation logic. | |
| Oct 21, 2018 at 12:36 | comment | added | George Sovetov | XML Syntax indeed may look verbose. But, what are some other languages that are supported everywhere? | |
| Oct 21, 2018 at 12:24 | history | answered | Jörg W Mittag | CC BY-SA 4.0 |