The Internet saves a lot more on storage and bandwidth costs by not shipping an XSLT implementation with every browser than it does by allowing Joe's Blog to present XML as an index.
I have arduinos with sensors providing their measurements as XML, with an external XSLT stylesheet to make them user-friendly. The arduinos have 2KB RAM and 16 MIPS.
Which build process are you talking about? Which XSLT library would you recommend for running on microcontrollers?
No because then it would not be an Atom feed. Atom is a syndication format, the successor to RSS. I must provide users with a link to a valid Atom XML document, and I want them to see a web page when this link is clicked.
This is why so many people find this objectionable. If you want to have a basic blog, you need some HTML docments and and RSS/Atom feed. The technologies required to do this are HTML for the documents and XSLT to format the feed. Google is now removing one of those technologies, which makes it essentially impossible to serve a truly static website.
bilog|3 months ago
zetanor|3 months ago
kuschku|3 months ago
Which build process are you talking about? Which XSLT library would you recommend for running on microcontrollers?
matthews3|3 months ago
The one in the comment I replied to.
Fileformat|3 months ago
The XSLT view of the RSS feed so people (especially newcomers) aren't met with a wall of XML text. It should still be a valid XML feed.
Plus it needs to work with static site generators.
James_K|3 months ago
This is why so many people find this objectionable. If you want to have a basic blog, you need some HTML docments and and RSS/Atom feed. The technologies required to do this are HTML for the documents and XSLT to format the feed. Google is now removing one of those technologies, which makes it essentially impossible to serve a truly static website.
ErroneousBosh|3 months ago
How so? You're just generating static pages. Generate ones that work.
gldrk|3 months ago
Do RSS readers and browsers send the same Accept header?