XSLT Debate Leads to Bigger Questions of Web Governance

September 1, 2025

, By The New Stack

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XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) is a powerful tool with significant potential, but it’s currently poorly and sometimes insecurely implemented in web browsers — and (maybe because of that) not that widely used on web sites. Is it better to remove it to improve security and free up browser makers’ budgets and resources for more popular features? That will mean web pages that do rely on it will need to be redesigned and rebuilt to keep working. Or is it better to invest in bringing XSLT up-to-date, at the risk of…

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XSLT Debate Leads to Bigger Questions of Web Governance

September 1, 2025

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XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) is a powerful tool with significant potential, but it’s currently poorly and sometimes insecurely implemented in web browsers — and (maybe because of that) not that widely used on web sites. Is it better to remove it to improve security and free up browser makers’ budgets and resources for more popular features? That will mean web pages that do rely on it will need to be redesigned and rebuilt to keep working. Or is it better to invest in bringing XSLT up-to-date, at the risk of…

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