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by zmix 1678 days ago
> After all, how on earth could one ever apply an XSLT transform to it, right!?

There is streaming APIs for XML. Just as XSLT 3.0 can do streaming. Saxon has implemented it, for example[1]. I am aware, that you are talking about the past, but also the XML world moves forward, albeit slowly, since the community has gotten much smaller.

[1]: https://www.saxonica.com/html/documentation10/sourcedocs/str...