Making XML Human-Readable Without Xslt
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The article discusses making XML human-readable without XSLT, sparking a debate about the relevance and security of XSLT, with some commenters questioning the author's concerns and others sharing alternative approaches.
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"The feature is often the source of significant security issues."
(how often ? - I see ONE potential security issue there, so long since a month ?)
"Browsers currently support a ~25 year old version of XSLT"
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As usually, the programmer basically and ignoring Users Case for his reward ($ impedance mismatch), is saying that the later is better than the former as he likes to use some JS magic (..there is nothing going on?) - because then.. he can debug it (!):
(or no job for JavaScript Document Programmer)