Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by skrebbel 3048 days ago
> What a straw-man argument. He clearly says "[t]he XML/XSLT approach",

That's a good point. I think I'm so scarred by how much I dislike XSLT that I fail to read comments that are positive about it in good faith. Clearly a mistake on my part, thanks.

2 comments

I made a pivot table creator in XSLT, it was pretty awesome and amazingly fast compared to how slow JavaScript was back in 2007.

Still, I know what you mean. Blizzard had a pretty cool WOW character editor in XSLT.

If you used only certain stuff and never had to debug someone else's XSLT it was pretty awesome.

The xslst "approach" + Javascript/json = graphql.