barefootliam

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by barefootliam 1y ago
These problems are a large part of why later versions of XSLT were developed.
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by barefootliam 1y ago
This is neither correct nor helpful, i think. There are examples of dynamic pages using XSLT, and the purpose is not compression at all. A very simple one - https://wendellpiez.github.io/XMLjellysandwich/IChing/ Y
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by barefootliam 1y ago
3.0 adds JSON support, maps, arrays, to 2.0 - and many other other changes, including streaming and optimizable recursion with the oddly-named xsl:iterate, but the JSON support is biggest for the in-browser uses. 4.0 will add parse-html() t
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by barefootliam 1y ago
XQuery has a different focus from XSLT. XQuery doesn’t have apply-templates, the document-based implicit dispatch that is so central to XSLT, and it doesn’t have the multiple inheritance possible with overloading templates, but it is strong
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by barefootliam 1y ago
0.02% of public Web pages, apparently, have the XSLT processing instruction in them, and a few more invoke XSLT through JavaScript (no-one really knows how many right now). It’s likely more heavily used inside corporate and governmental fir
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by barefootliam 1y ago
When i first encountered the early GNOME 1 software back in the very late 1990s, and DV (libml author) was active, i was very surprised when i asked for the public API for a library and was told, look at the header files and the source. The
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by barefootliam 4y ago
Beowulf was a Type 3 PostScript font, not Type 1, so that it could bypass the font cache and could access random numbers on the LaserWriter PostScript interpreter. Type 3 fonts don't have hinting in the renderer, and require a full Pos
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by barefootliam 5y ago
It's the default combination for printing, and it's probably also default (i didn't check) e.g. on one-bit e-ink screens.
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by barefootliam 6y ago
Here at least, firefox depends on libxml2, which comes from a different package. But, bloated is in the eye of the beholder - there's always Dillo and lynx.
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by barefootliam 6y ago
No. XML libraries increase the attack _surface_, but XML itself is passive. There was a famous "billion laughs" attack, but JavaScript was also vulnerable to this, as is any language that lets you concatenate strings. The usual fi
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by barefootliam 6y ago
MathML is being added to WebKit; an implementation offered for Safari was rejected years ago.
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by barefootliam 6y ago
When we invented XML we did not have configuration files as a major use case- although the possibility of ubiquity had been hinted at in a speech by Michael Sperberg-McQueen earlier that year, comparing the potential of SGML to the infrastr
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by barefootliam 6y ago
There isn't an alternative, largely i think because XML people come at the problem from the idea that documents are primary, not just artifacts of programs.
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by barefootliam 6y ago
I think more about the fact libxml and libxslt are large pieces of code and have had CVEs raised against them (and fixed) in the past. They are still actively maintained.
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by barefootliam 6y ago
"The biggest advantage of JSON and YAML" should be put in a context of, "when working as a programmer with config files". When we designed XML, we were working on things like a million pages of Unix documentation, or the