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Should the web platform adopt XSLT 3.0?


What is the issue with the HTML Standard? Background This is a follow-up to #11523. That issue raises concerns regarding security issues, code maintainability, and the complexity of aging browser c...

This issue is intended to be a discussion of alternatives to deprecations and how the concerns raised in#11523 may be handled to mitigate the risks for both browser maintainers and users. In addition, cross-browser functionality for XSLT is incomplete with certain features like<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"> having open issues dating back over two decades with no fix in sight. Are there external libraries that browsers could adopt in order to gain v3.0 support without building and maintaining the specification in house?

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