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XSLT Debate Leads To Bigger Questions of Web Governance

The New Stack

October 27, 2025

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Mary Branscombe
4mo

I've ended up writing a very long piece about XSLT and whether browsers should keep the code they use to transform XML documents into new forms because what was meant to be a technical debate about security, resource priorities and backward compatibility touched such a nerve it needs MEMES 🧵

XSLT Debate Leads to Bigger Questions of Web Governance

XSLT Debate Leads to Bigger Questions of Web Governance

Security issues and web compatibility are pulling in different directions, as Google and Firefox discuss dropping XSLT support from browsers.


https://thenewstack.io/xslt-debate-leads-to-bigger-questions-of-web-governance/
  • standards

  • Chrome

  • web platform

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