Comment by bawolff

Comment by bawolff 16 hours ago

Since this seems to be about the recent proposal to remove xslt, i'd point out you can do the same thing with CSS

https://bawolff.net/css-website/index.xml is Evidlo's example but using a css stylesheet instead of xslt. I changed some of the text to explain what i was doing, but otherwise the XML is unchanged with one exception. Unfortunately you do have to put the <a> tags in the xhtml namespace to make them clickable. Other than that no changes to the xml.

Obviously there is a lot that xslt can do that css cannot, but when it comes to just display, CSS is an option here.

egeozcan 12 hours ago

This is really, definitely cool, but it's important to remember that content added via CSS is purely decorative. It can't be interacted with, which is a major issue for assistive technologies like screen readers.

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lelandfe 3 hours ago

I learned recently that you can provide accessible labels for content: https://www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-learned/css-content-acce...
I haven’t yet cracked open a screen reader to see how it fares, though.

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8organicbits 15 hours ago

> there is a lot that xslt can do that css cannot

This latter part is why I've reached for XSLT in the past. Most recently was to convert an RSS feed into a styled page with instructions at the top. Templates and xpath can really transform a document.

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Evidlo 13 hours ago

Thanks for the CSS example.

By the way, the advanced/ folder has a slightly more complicated example that demonstrates template inheritance and "slots".

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bawolff 11 hours ago

Yeah, i saw. Unfortunately the advanced example wouldn't be doable in CSS. I suppose i'm being a bit intellectually dishonest to not explicitly point that out.

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em-bee 8 hours ago

that feels a bit to simplified. i'd like to see an example that includes at least some html, and maybe clickable links. it's maybe also worth showing that you can include images with css.

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lenkite 12 hours ago

Umm..your CSS example doesn't show any template includes. No way to put header/footer in separate files.

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em-bee 8 hours ago

but they are in a separate file. the css file. you an load multiple css files if you want to break it out.

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bawolff 11 hours ago

The original example didn't have that either.

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- myfonj 8 hours ago
  
  That's strange; the `head` and `footer` nodes were present in the XSL template this morning [1], last GH change was Feb 13 [2], what matches
  curl --head --silent --url https://xsl-website.widloski.com/template.xsl | grep modified last-modified: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 07:11:02 GMT
  from here.
  [1] at 09:11:48, according https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://xsl-website.widloski.co... [2] https://github.com/Evidlo/xsl-website/commits/master/templat...
  
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  bawolff 2 hours ago
  
  The footer is in the stylesheet in both my and Evidlo's example. In neither of our examples are these in separate files from the stylesheet.
  
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Pxtl 13 hours ago

> i'd point out you can do the same thing with CSS

Cool when are they removing CSS from the standard?

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