XSLT NOW
yeah
i think XSLT is cool.
i discovered it when tinkering with PAWN compiler flags.
including its -r option will make it write a report file, which is an XML file containing information
about the compiled script and members in it, along with their documentation comments. it also proved an XSLT document
that transforms the XML into an HTML document.
an example can be found here: documented samp pawn api. if everything goes right and your browser still supports xslt, you should see an html page.
UNFORTUNATELY, XSLT IS BEING REMOVED FROM BROWSERS
this makes me sad, i think it's a neat thing. you can have data in XML for all kinds of processing purposes, but then also use the same XML document and transform it into anything you want like a visually appealing HTML document! (without having to start from an HTML document that fetches XML and parses it to walk over elements to transform them)
opening any xml document that refers to xslt prints this link in firefox' console: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1287 (at moment of writing, of course)
The recent proposal from Google to remove XSLT from the HTML living specification has gathered overwhelmingly negative sentiment among regular users of the web.
YEAH?
in chromium family browsers, it shows a huge red banner at the top telling that the page "relies on a feature that will be removed from this browser very soon".
i'm tired and not sure what to write next here
David Bushell's thoughts on XSLT's impending death
fun fact: while opening the previously linked xml+xslt page to look again at the url printed in firefox' developer console, it crashed on me and it keeps crashing. that's new.
fun fact 2: i keep writing xlst half of the time