Direction of travel seems to be JavaScript for all of this sort of thing

Posted Aug 28, 2025 8:32 UTC (Thu) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: Direction of travel seems to be JavaScript for all of this sort of thing by wahern
Parent article: The tangled web of XSLT browser support

PDF.js was prototyped outside the browser, and integrated when it was clear that it was useful (to replace PDF plugins, admittedly).

I don't see any strong reason why the same couldn't happen with XSLT; people show cool tech demos outside the browser, using a JavaScript based viewer for their XML format (which is something that most of the usage of XSLT I've seen, bar the trick of making an RSS feed pretty, could do easily - they're currently serving an XML data file and XSLT file to generate a web page, they could serve a HTML5+JavaScript+CSS fileset and an XML data file).

The RSS use would need a bit more server-side assistance to serve the web page to browsers, and the RSS feed to RSS readers, but would at least be something you could prove works well, before asking browsers to integrate xslt.js.