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A polyfill for XSLTProcessor

10 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 0 stories, 10 comments · first 2025-08-25 · latest 2026-05-29

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  1. …https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45873434 No need to imagine a polyfil, they already exist: https://github.com/mfreed7/xslt_polyfill
    comment by moebrowne · 2026-05-29 · in Avoid Using "< [Cdata[ ]]>" in RSS
  2. …really an issue? This is the method that the chrome teams polyfill to replace XSLT suggests you do. https://github.com/mfreed7/xslt_polyfill/tree/main#usage
    comment by Devasta · 2026-04-27 · in The woes of sanitizing SVGs
  3. xslt-polyfill.min.js is 1.3 MB on its own https://github.com/mfreed7/xslt_polyfill/blob/main/xslt-poly...
    comment by 8organicbits · 2025-11-10 · in XSLT RIP
  4. Multiple MB? I'm looking at: https://github.com/mfreed7/xslt_polyfill Which uses: https://github.com/DesignLiquido/xslt-processor/tree/main But they don't look that heavy. Am I missing something? Megabytes of JS would be enormous.
    comment by crazygringo · 2025-11-10 · in XSLT RIP
  5. Since the XSLTProcessor feature can be realized with a Polyfill ( https://github.com/mfreed7/xslt_polyfill ), I find myself agreeing with Google. Btw, I love this page! Highly entertaining, yet at the same time use of XSLT.
    comment by Tepix · 2025-11-10 · in XSLT RIP
  6. …/gucci-on-fleek/maxchernoff.ca/blob/8d3538... [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45874305 [2]: https://github.com/mfreed7/xslt_polyfill
    comment by gucci-on-fleek · 2025-11-10 · in XSLT RIP
  7. The lead dev driving the Chrome deprecation built a wasm polyfill https://github.com/mfreed7/xslt_polyfill . Multiple people proposed in the Github discussions leading up to this that Google simply make the polyfill ship with Chrome as an…
    comment by willseth · 2025-11-05 · in Removing XSLT for a more secure browser
  8. Looks like there is a WASM polyfill for XSLT based on libxslt: https://github.com/mfreed7/xslt_polyfill To me this is the best way forward, I used to like XSLT quite a bit but the world has moved on and I get browser maintainers not…
    comment by SigmundA · 2025-08-29 · in PSA: Libxslt is unmaintained and has 5 unpatched security bugs
  9. https://github.com/mfreed7/xslt_polyfill/pull/5 - it will be able to do this soon.
    comment by 8NNTt8z3QvLT8tp · 2025-08-25 · in "Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec"
  10. https://github.com/mfreed7/xslt_polyfill/pull/5 - someone's made a PR that looks like it would allow Mason's polyfill to work directly from the XML file.
    comment by 8NNTt8z3QvLT8tp · 2025-08-25 · in XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites