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date    = "2022-10-17T21:54:15+00:00"
lastmod = "2022-10-17T21:54:15+00:00"
tags    = [ "web" ]
author  = "tdro"
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I've been doing a bit of research into
{{< abbr XSLT "Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations" >}}. There was a
time where [XSLT](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/XSLT) was almost
[removed from `chromium`](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-forms/2013Oct/0013.html).
The early consensus was that
"[`XSLT` is failure wrapped in pain](http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/)"
:-) {{< abbr imo "in my opinion" >}}, it's good as a no build/compilation
{{< abbr XML "Extensible Markup Language" >}} transformer and has
{{< abbr fp "functional programming" >}} vibes but way over engineered.