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		lucb1e 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: "Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec" I thought XML was that big hype, not XSLT. That I somehow never saw mentioned that you can do actual webpages and other useful stuff with it is probably why I never understood why people thought XML was so useful ^^' I thought it was just another data format like JSON or CSV, and we might as well have written HTML as {"body":{"p":"Hello, World!"}} and that it's just serendipity that XML was earlier

4ndrewl 4 months ago [–]

XML was the data storage - IBM DB9 supported it natively in a similar way to how Postgres supports jsonb.

You'd use XSLT to translate your data into a webpage. Or a mobile device that supported WML/WAP. Or a desktop application.

That was the dream, anyhow.

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