Long Live XSLT 1.0

XSLT is being deprecated from the browser platform, and is planned to be fully removed in the coming year. I had already seen some posts come by that mentioned that they were replacing XSLT with something else, but I completely missed the gist. RIP XSLT. Two years and a few days ago, I introduced styled RSS feeds and XML sitemaps on this website. To do so, I relied on this almost obscure Internet technology that a lot of people don’t know about: XSLT. XSLT was originally introduced in 1999, and version 1.0 has been part of the web platform since then. Styled RSS Feed Using XSLT Later versions exist, such as 2.0 and 3.0, and 4.0 is now in the works, but these never ended up coming to browsers and remained backend languages. After many years, many attempts, and arguably low usage, XSLT 1.0 is being discontinued by the three major browser vendors. What does that mean for my styled feeds? I considered using JavaScript to render them, or using a polyfill, but I decided that the hassle was…