Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

Some time in August some companies (read: Google) proposed the removal of the XML stylesheet language, or XSLT, from the HTML specification. There was a slightly delayed reaction (it was, after all, August) but then people began to push back. This post in the HTML 'issues' section (now 'closed') raises some of them, and lists a variety of places where XSLT is used. Of particular note: "There's no public record for the decision. The only publicly available discussion you linked to clearly states that the numbers are not low enough, people will object to this decision, and that the discussion should be postponed. There's no investigation into the long tail of web sites, of how many exactly would be broken etc."

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