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xslt
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pacocoursey / xslt

xslt

Native web build system (XML+XSLT)

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What it is

Native web build system (XML+XSLT)

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by month3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-06-27 05:00:41 UTC to 2026-10-17 23:55:29 UTC.

012025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJun 20252025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsFeb 20262026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 2026

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Jun 20252025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Jul 20252025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Aug 20252025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20252025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20252025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20252025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20252025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20262026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20262026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20262026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20262026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20262026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20262026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20262026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20262026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20262026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20262026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-11-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

3 sources
em-bee·Oct 17, 2026
XSLT RIP(https://xslt.rip/) 698 points|edent|11 months ago|464 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45873434 Removing XSLT for a more secure browser(https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/deprecating-x...) 183 points|justin-reeves|1 year ago|337 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45823059 Intent to Deprecate and Remove XSLT(https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/CxL4g...) 87 points|CharlesW|1 year ago|149 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45779261 A look at XSLT 3.0 (2017)(https://www.xml.com/articles/2017/02/14/why-you-should-be-us...) 75 points|protomolecool|1 year ago|45 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45026013 Show HN: I Built a XSLT Blog Framework(https://vgr.land/content/posts/20250821.xml) 116 points|vgr-land|1 year ago|68 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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em?id=45006098 Show HN: JavaScript-free (X)HTML Includes(https://github.com/Evidlo/xsl-website) 211 points|Evidlo|1 year ago|114 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44988271 Should the web platform adopt XSLT 3.0?(https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11578) 133 points|protomolecool|1 year ago|108 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44987552 XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites(https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11582) 160 points|colejohnson66|1 year ago|146 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44987346 Google did not unilaterally decide to kill XSLT(https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2025/08/22/no-google-did-...) 103 points|bkardell|1 year ago|128 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44987239 "Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec"(https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11563) 388 points|troupo|1 year ago|535 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44952185 Should we remove XSLT from the web platform?(https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523) 73 points|edent|1 year ago|96 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44909599 XSLT: A Precision Tool for the Future of Structured Transformation(https://www.xml.com/articles/2025/07/19/xslt-precision-tool-...) 58 points|protomolecool|1 year ago|59 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44633384 XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web(https://github.com/pacocoursey/xslt) 392 points|_kush|1 year ago|325 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44393817 Intent to Unship: XSLT(https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/ZRy...) 5 points|tambourine_man|2 months ago|1 comments (this list is incomplete. but we just had a power outage (including getting zapped, so i am submitting this now to not lose it)
In Chrome and Edge are removing XSLT: what breaks and what does not
righthand·Jul 1, 2025
Well it’s all in a single directory: ``` static/ js/ css/ log/ my-post.xml my-post.xsl index.html ``` Caddyfile: ``` :8080 try_files {path}.xml {path}.html file_server { index index.xml index.html root static } ``` XSLT work is all based off of a repository someone wrote with a grug brain explainer: https://github.com/pacocoursey/xslt The next step is to generate all of the `static` dir from markdown files and probably a new markdown-like format for registering templates to generate xsl/xml files for special html blocks and template parts or generating blog listing pages.
In What should a native DOM templating API look like?

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