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0 pointszlg_codes2y ago0 comments

That's cute, now show me someone who's made something modern and usable with that tech.

I used XSLT and XML to build a video game collection tracker. Just a page that could display things. It was a nightmare. I later spent a weekend building it in Python, added "export to JSON" and then made a tiny SPA with vanilla JS to do the job.

It's very powerful and can do some neat things, but it's taught poorly and not easy to teach yourself.

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ndriscoll2y ago· 1 in thread

I'm not sure what you mean with it being a nightmare. It's my go-to for personal stuff. Most recently I used it to make a template for my photo albums. For personal stuff it works fantastically because it's easy to just use a simple text editor for everything with zero other tools required.

It's out of fashion these days, sure, but you could easily make e.g. a forum or a news site or a blog or a facebook type of thing. Anything where you want, well, templated html. So almost all of the web.

I know once upon a time the WoW armory was built with xml/xslt. It's convenient because then you've already also automatically got a data API; just ignore the stylesheet.

zlg_codesOP2y ago

In my case, I needed to put together table headings that were clickable that would sort the dataset. XSLT can do that, but midway through doing the task, I realized that I was working with stuff that belonged in a database, accessible from more places via SQLite. Since I needed a multitude of different ways to sort and filter the data set, I made use of VIEWs to abstract the filtering and turned it into a CLI tool.

There's still an appreciation in me for XML (specifically SVG), so maybe I'll try something else with the tech. Care to share a link or example to more of what you're talking about?

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