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XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites


What is the issue with the HTML Standard? One of the issues we've seen in #11523 and #11563 is that the proposal to remove XSLT from the spec doesn't acknowledge existing use cases beyond Chrome St...

One of the issues we've seen in#11523 and#11563 is that the proposal to remove XSLT from the spec doesn't acknowledge existing use cases beyond Chrome Status counter stats. The primary signal we use is the fraction of page views impacted in Chrome, usually computed via Blink’s UseCounter UMA metrics. I would like@mfreed7@domenic and other Googlers who initiated and move on with this proposal to acknowledge this, and provide more rationale for removing XSLT than just Chrome Status counter stats.

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