On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM xeere <[email protected]> wrote:

> If the solution is this simple, why are users being expected to implement
> it and potentially break the standards compliance of their XML documents?
> Surely the browser could be made to dispatch this polyfill whenever it
> encounters a document with the stylesheet tag.
>

Unfortunately, for lots of technical reasons, integrating it directly into
the browser (and maintaining thereafter) is much harder than it might seem.


> On Mon, 10 Nov 2025, 16:23 Chris Harrelson, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM xeere <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It's not impossible. To achieve this, you can include the script for the
>> XSLT polyfill mentioned in this thread in the response from your server.
>>
>> 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
>>>>>>>>>>>
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