THtherealmarv·Aug 29, 2025
If somebody wants to help XSLT 3.0...
This open source Rust implementation needs more help of integrating the full XSLT 3.0 standard into their engine
https://github.com/Paligo/xee
In A look at XSLT 3.0 (2017)Paligo
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| Mar 24 | 2025-03-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-03-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Mar 31 | 2025-03-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-04-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 7 | 2025-04-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-04-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 14 | 2025-04-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-04-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 21 | 2025-04-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-04-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 28 | 2025-04-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 5 | 2025-05-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 12 | 2025-05-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 19 | 2025-05-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 26 | 2025-05-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-06-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2 | 2025-06-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-06-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 9 | 2025-06-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-06-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 16 | 2025-06-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-06-23 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 23 | 2025-06-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-06-30 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jun 30 | 2025-06-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-07-07 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jul 7 | 2025-07-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-07-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 14 | 2025-07-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-07-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 21 | 2025-07-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-07-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 28 | 2025-07-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-08-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 4 | 2025-08-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-08-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 11 | 2025-08-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-08-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 18 | 2025-08-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-08-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Aug 25 | 2025-08-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
8 sourcesSomeone is working on a Rust XPath 3.1 and XSLT 3.0 library: https://github.com/Paligo/xee
In PSA: Libxslt is unmaintained and has 5 unpatched security bugsSo what do you think about: https://github.com/Paligo/xee ?
In "Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec"There is a better alternative to libxslt - xee[1][2]. It was discussed[3] on HN before.
[1] https://blog.startifact.com/posts/xee/
[2] https://github.com/Paligo/xee
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43502291
In "Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec"Eh, I also thought that at one point (regarding XSLT 3.0), but it turns out that parts of it are an underspecified mess. E.g., you can specify static parameters to be supplied to the document, but it has nothing on when or how any type-conversion errors would be signaled [0]. And in general, it has very imperative features like shadow attributes that purists would turn up their noses at. I don't see it becoming widespread anytime soon.
[0] https://github.com/Paligo/xee/issues/32#issuecomment-2762343...
In What should a native DOM templating API look like?- Browsers are XSLT (1.0) processors.
- Xee: https://github.com/Paligo/xee
- xrust: https://docs.rs/xrust/latest/xrust/xslt/
- XJSLT (compiles XSLT to JS): https://github.com/egh/xjslt
Xee is WIP AFAIK and I don't know the maturity of xrust and XJSLT.
In XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the WebI always hate it when license files have "yes, but" language in them because if the license file differs in some non-obvious way, now I have to pay lawyers to interpret it
https://github.com/Paligo/xee/blob/xee-v0.1.5/COPYRIGHT
And that goes double for when there is a separate LICENSE file in the repo https://github.com/Paligo/xee/blob/xee-v0.1.5/LICENSE-MIT
In Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in RustThere are many humongous XML sources. E.g. the Wikipedia archive is 42GB of uncompressed text. Holding a fully parsed representation of it in memory would take even more, perhaps even >100GB which immediately puts this size of document out of reach.
The obvious solution is streaming, but streaming appears to not be supported, though is listed under Challenging Future Ideas: https://github.com/Paligo/xee/blob/main/ideas.md
How hard is it to implement XML/XSLT/XPATH streaming?
In Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust