XSLT

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Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT, also XSL(T) or XSL-T), is a domain-specific declarative programming language that transforms text into text. It was originally designed for transforming XML documents into other XML documents, or other formats such as HTML for web pages, plain text, or XSL Formatting Objects. These formats can be subsequently converted to formats such as PDF, PostScript, and PNG. Support for JSON and plain-text transformation was added in later updates to the XSLT 1.0 specification. XSLT 3.0 implementations support Java, .NET, C/C++, Python, PHP and NodeJS. An XSLT 3.0 JavaScript library can also be hosted within the web browser. Modern web browsers include native support for XSLT 1.0. However usage has always been rather low and declining. It was used by 0.02% of websites in 2013 and 0.001% in 2025. Over the years XSLT repeatedly had severe security vulnerabilities. Google proposed to remove it from Chromium initially in 2013 and later in 2015. Ten...

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