Comment by notpushkin

Comment by notpushkin 18 hours ago

If I understand correctly, Mozilla and Apple don’t really want to support it either. And the reason for that is, the spec is still at XSLT 1.0, which is super old, and current implementations are effectively abandonware. Catch-22?

johncolanduoni 16 hours ago

I believe the spec is at XSLT 3.0 but no browser actually implemented past XSLT 1.0 (not 100% sure - almost nobody cared about this feature last month so hard to find good docs on support). HTML5 and C++ are cut from the same cloth - massive and no reference implementation so full of features that have been “standard” for 10 years but never implemented by anyone.

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notpushkin 15 hours ago

Yeah, sorry, the XSLT spec is at 3.0 right now of course, but the browsers don’t implement it, and the WHATWG HTML Living Standard only mentions XSLT 1.0.

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arccy 15 hours ago

even outside of browsers barely anything supports XSLT newer than 1.0

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ekianjo 16 hours ago

The spec is at XLST 3 right now.

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JW_00000 5 hours ago

When notpushkin said "the spec is still at XSLT 1.0", I think "the spec" is referring to the WHATWG HTML Living Standard spec, which only refers to XSLT 1.0. (It wouldn't make sense to say "the XSLT spec is at XSLT 1.0".)

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abraham 16 hours ago

Browsers only implement XSLT 1
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2025/08/22/no-google-did-...

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- ekianjo 14 hours ago
  
  We were talking about the spec, not the implementation.
  
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