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> or $0? Probably not. For $40m/year, I bet you could create an entire company

No sane commercial entity will dump even a cent into supporting an unused technology.

You have better luck pitching this idea to your senator to set up an agency for dead stuff - it will create tens or hundreds of jobs. And what's $40mm in the big picture?





> your senator

Funny you should mention that. US Title Code uses XSLT.

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/19/xslt/


I know it is there. I am more curious as to why no one updated all that to modern browser technology.

Until these recent rumblings out of Google, it was modern browser technology.

> Until these recent rumblings out of Google, it was modern browser technology.

It is supported technology. That's all it is. And it will be no more.

No one is stopping you from rendering your XML to HTML server side using XSLT.


Why change it? It’s only an update it if improves something.



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