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petesergeant on June 27, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the We...

XSLT is great fun as a general functional programming language! You can build native functional data-structures[1], implement graph-traversal algorithms[2], and even write test assertions[3]!

1: https://github.com/pjlsergeant/xslt-fever-dream/blob/main/ut...

2: https://github.com/pjlsergeant/xslt-fever-dream/blob/main/ut...

3: https://github.com/pjlsergeant/xslt-fever-dream/blob/main/ut...

bmacho on June 27, 2025 [–]

Files are missing from the repo(?). What about util-map.xsl, test-map.xsl, util-serialize.xsl

petesergeant on June 27, 2025 | [–]

I've updated this, as well as included instructions on running the built-in unit tests, which are of course also written in XSLT.

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