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_heimdall01/03/20261 replyview on HN

Browsers really should have embraced XSLT rather that abandoned it. Now we're stuck trying yet again to reinvent solutions already handled by REST [1].

[1] https://tonysull.co/articles/mcp-is-the-wrong-answer/


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wwweston01/03/2026

XSLT is the solution domain specialists and philosophers. Abandoning it is the vote of the market and market interests, the wisdom of crowds at work. This is the era of scale not expertise, enjoy the fruits.

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