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General Discussion

XML/XSLT

Does Treehouse offer XML and/or XSLT courses? I have been unable to locate classes that teach this technology.

Thank you.

3 Answers

Those are mostly legacy technologies. XSLT was mostly replaced by CSS.

XML has been mostly replaced by HTML5 & JSON.

XML usage went down when work on the XHTML 2 standard was stopped 2009.

You might be interested the Beginning XML book

Someone's (someone who cares, that is) brain just exploded when you call XML and XSLT legacy technologies. In fact, XSLT has a very new spec. I think it's probably accurate to say they are less desirable tools but certainly not legacy.

On what platforms is this new spec implemented on?

I'd assume anything that has a libxml or libxslt variant.

XSLT appears to be useful in the Digital Humanities, when you want to create websites with XML TEI contents, such as the venerable Perseus.

Maybe James can tell us whether there is any "non-legacy" alternative to XSLT...