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Asked: 2026-05-11T08:13:09+00:00

Is this technology still popular? I want to make a website which automatically transforms

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Is this technology still popular?

I want to make a website which automatically transforms XSLT files. It should work like this: When a user accesses the site, a single handler would accept his request and then find a suitable XML for it (according to the URL requested) and transform it using its attached XSL file.

I want to do this in order to make it easy to update the site using plain XML files (instead of using a full-fledged & expensive CMS system).

What do you say? good idea? bad idea? anyone has a recommendation?

Thanks!

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  1. Answers based on ‘the syntax is hard’ is no answer at all imho. A). It really isn’t, and B). You’re supposed to be a programmer, just learn it.

    Definitely other technologies are advancing at a pace XSLT hasn’t since 2005ish, but it remains a powerful tool which gives you a level of abstraction that, say, asp.net webforms don’t, and allows you to provide a general scalable solution to trivially serialise to a range of output formats. It’s easy to generate HTML with any given language, it’s harder to now extend that to XML, now extend that to JSON, now extend that to CSV.

    And cached transforms are plenty fast enough in an environment which is still I/O bound.

    OTOH, storing data in XML is generally not a good idea. Far better to store in a DB/mem and serialise as required for all the reasons above.

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