Chrome and Edge to drop XSLT support: what breaks and what stays working

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Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge are removing support for XSLT, the stylesheet language used to transform XML documents for display in browsers. The change would affect websites and feeds that rely on XSLT to render XML content in the browser. An analysis article outlines which uses will break and which will continue to function. The source is a Hacker News discussion linking to a Doctor SEO blog post on the topic, which had drawn 22 points and 8 comments at the time of capture.

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