8 engineers on Hacker News describe using XSLT first-hand: 5 endorse it, 3 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I have been using it for 26 years. I generate XML documents on the backend and turn them into HTML for various reports.”
endorse · production · 26 yr · mcculley · 2026-10-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“XSLT was one of those "theoretical" W3C languages that (rightfully) aged like milk. Never again.”
regret · production · calmbonsai · 2025-06-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using XSLT on RSS feeds forever now... XSLT is a really underused technology.”
endorse · personal · giantrobot · 2024-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“rendered via xsl (what can I say to redeem myself for that?)”
regret · production · vidarh · 2023-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I did a lot of XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 2.0 back in mid-00s, using Saxon, and I still miss many aspects of it.”
endorse · personal · int_19h · 2021-08-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Never again I will touch XSLT. That's how I dumped my wordpress to HTML. I regretted it.”
regret · personal · steren · 2021-01-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use XSLT 1.0 + EXSLT and have written around 30 (EXSLT) functions to make sure everything works like we expect.”
endorse · production · donum · 2014-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using XSLT very extensively in my current role for at least two years now and I love it!”
endorse · production · 2 yr · sbennettmcleish · 2014-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?