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by vidarh 842 days ago
Try to write a generic data and time formatting template in xslt to let you do basic arithmetic on timestamps of the type you might want in a view.

When you've stopped screaming in horror at what you've suffered, we can discuss whether you still think that's a good idea.

The overall concept is good, but sadly xslt is constrained enough to be massively painful for this kind of thing.

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I tried it for a couple days years ago. I concluded it was not a good idea then

I'm a full stack guy myself, so I'll stick with React.

So a pretty bad faith suggestion then - the way the linked site does things is nothing remotely resembling your "suggestion" to use XSL.