On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM PhistucK <[email protected]> wrote:

> Just to verify, this will not remove document.evaluate which depends on
> XPath - right? It is the only way to natively find an element by text and
> other advanced combinations as far as I know.
>

Yep, great question. We are absolutely *not* removing `document.evaluate()`
or XPath generally. That's part of XML, not XSLT. (Side note, there are
other native methods such as NodeIterator / TreeWalker, but those obviously
don't offer such a compact way to search for text content.)

Thanks,
Mason



>
> ☆*PhistucK*
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> On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM Mason Freed <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thank you all, I appreciate it. I'll be back in a few months with an
>> update on the pre-stable experiment, plus any other feedback I've received.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mason
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM Mike Taylor <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> LGTM3
>>> On 10/29/25 11:42 a.m., Chris Harrelson wrote:
>>>
>>> LGTM2 for the steps Vlad mentioned.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 8:38 AM Vladimir Levin <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey, we discussed this at API owners today.
>>>>
>>>> Generally, we're supportive of removing XSLT. As for the plan, I think
>>>> it would be best if we disable this in Canary as soon as possible (via
>>>> Finch) to find real breakages that we may be missing. Further, disabling in
>>>> Beta and Dev shortly after to get more data is also good.
>>>>
>>>> LGTM1 for the plan with the above changes. We would like you to check
>>>> in with results of Canary / Dev / Beta and warning steps in 3 months to see
>>>> how we proceed further.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Vlad
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, October 27, 2025 at 9:37:51 AM UTC-4 j.j. wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> see also
>>>>> https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1287
>>>>>
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