I have a statically hosted website and I should like to add formatting to my RSS feed so that other people will get a pleasant experience when they click on the link. This seems impossible without XSLT. Perhaps I'm just old fashioned, but I think generally browser should support the basic technologies you'd need to write HTML documents and serve them to people.
On Thursday, November 6, 2025 at 6:53:42 PM UTC Mason Freed wrote: > On Sat, Nov 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM optimi zix <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Well technically XPath is an autonous language and is a strong basis of >> XSLT >> (1) It would help to clarify XPath status >> > > That's fair! To clarify, we are absolutely *not* removing > `document.evaluate()` or XPath generally. > > >> (2) it would be helpful to know if there is way to reactivate those API >> if we solve the security issues (via rust implementation ?) >> > > By "those APIs" I assume you mean XSLT. If so, unfortunately that's not > our current plan, no. > > Thanks, > Mason > > >> Le vendredi 31 octobre 2025 à 22:11:15 UTC+1, Mason Freed a écrit : >> >>> 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* >>>> >>>> >>>> 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 >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>>> Groups "blink-dev" group. >>>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>>>>> send an email to [email protected]. >>>>>>> To view this discussion visit >>>>>>> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/4aa38aaf-702e-41d6-91f1-7ba8b18ff675n%40chromium.org >>>>>>> >>>>>>> <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/4aa38aaf-702e-41d6-91f1-7ba8b18ff675n%40chromium.org?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>>>>> . >>>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups "blink-dev" group. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>>>> send an email to [email protected]. >>>>>> To view this discussion visit >>>>>> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAOMQ%2Bw9BLUzVTz_-ioPp0ie%2Bn3g4gbS4wo5LvC3ZQLbzRzUa%2Bg%40mail.gmail.com >>>>>> >>>>>> <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAOMQ%2Bw9BLUzVTz_-ioPp0ie%2Bn3g4gbS4wo5LvC3ZQLbzRzUa%2Bg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>>>> . >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "blink-dev" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>>> To view this discussion visit >>>>> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAM%3DNeDjFNC8jF%2BFchRke6SFnV-n6BUTe41qD0Y%3D1OpcxWeDNEA%40mail.gmail.com >>>>> >>>>> <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAM%3DNeDjFNC8jF%2BFchRke6SFnV-n6BUTe41qD0Y%3D1OpcxWeDNEA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>>> . >>>>> >>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/550d1172-6854-4383-8612-7b5a5112e4fan%40chromium.org.
