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		TeMPOraL 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog SGML. Just joking. Sort of. There's apparently a modern tool you can use to transpile SGML to HTML[0], and I'm itching to try it out. -- [0] - https://sgmljs.net/docs/producing-html-tutorial/producing-ht... - yes, it's an NPM package, and yes, you can run it in the browser, but you can also use it on a server, or as a static site generator.

spc476 11 months ago [–]

The non-blog parts of my site [1] are in XML and I use xsltproc to generate HTML. It's technically a static-site generator. It works, but my God, is XSLT a verbose (functional) language.

[1] https://www.conman.org/

pyuser583 11 months ago | [–]

I loved XSLT. I thought it was the most perfect language ever created. What was I thinking?

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