Yes. And of course we saw CSS Frameworks emerge largely because var() - now CSS has functions. It's been a long-standing issue as it's emerging as hybrid declarative and function. Hmmm. Maybe that's a good thing? I tend toward declarative for markup and style as foundational.
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They are in use, and a good person for examples is Steven Pemberton, who continues to speak on these topics and other XML/Semantic Web long-time influencers with W3C ties use them, mostly intranets. But XML's kids are alive. SVG anyone? :)
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Y'all need to check out Saxon-JS 2
Saxon-JS 2 is available today: XSLT 3.0 and XPath 3.1 in versions for Node.js and the browser, and now with its own XSLT compiler, no longer dependent on Saxon-EE. It's fast and it's free. saxonica.com/saxon-js/index.… #xslt #xpath #xml
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Node.js for compiling XSLT? I'm kinda startled but shouldn't be at all. Great to know about and must see this in action. Thank you Martynas!
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It's just a pre-processing step. The compiled stylesheet is then interpreted by the Saxon-JS runtime in the browser
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My thoughts go right to security and generating code, even quality, clean, rigorous code, is in part contributing to reliance on tools over language skills. Know the code is a reasonable ethic for use at all. And a mantra since Perl/CGI server side era.
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Have you checked out our blog by the way? :)
atomgraph.com/blog/linkeddat…
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Yes! Just a bit ago followed link in your bio :) LinkedData fascinates me and is also a specialized domain. I'm comfortable with specialists skilled enough to know what XSLT, RDF (and variants) is at all these days, much less work with LinkedData. This is very interesting, thxya!
Apr 26, 2021 · 12:08 PM UTC
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