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I have personally discovered the technique that delivers XML and XSL to browser separately and then performs XSLT on client side over 10 years ago.
To those, who don't aware there's a sample:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='index.xsl'?>
<page xmlns="http://softsky.com.ua" language="en">
<title>SOFTSKY - Information Security Audit</title>
</page>
and XSL
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
exclude-result-prefixes="xhtml"
version="2.0">
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes" encoding="utf-8" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"/>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-us" class="no-js">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8"/>
<title><xsl:value-of select="/page/title"/></title>
</head>
</html>
would do the job.
Those time only limited set of browsers supported it, but technique was just amazing. Client will cache loaded XSL and automatic data binding will be performed so browser just need to update XML all the time. XML could even contain internationalized text for multilanguage support. I've recently tried pretty simple XSLT on dozed browsers using BrowserStack and it looks that it's widely supported. Even on mobile.
I'm in software development for 20+ years but never saw any framework that use that technique. What's the reason?
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This is not just a good question, but rather an excellent question.
The combination of XSLT + XML = (X)HTML is IMHO the absolutely best way of creating a website.
Its power is tremendous. I do create my own websites in this way and so I'm a real website programmer (because XSLT is a turing complete programming language!).
I remember having read that one famous website is/was using this technique: blizzard.com, the creators on World of Warcraft et al. I can neither confirm nor deny this.
As a developer myself, I can confirm that this development choice is possible. You can create a (very good) website with XSLT+XML=(X)HTML.
And more than that: This (development) path is premium!
So relating to your question: "why is this not standard"?
I guess that it's not, because all actions are done client-side and so are not trackable and are of no use for (fucking) big-data-companies.
That's the main reason, I guess:
Technically perfect, but monetary deficient.
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