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Is OOXML Artifically Complex?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 09:07:00

Is OOXML Artifically Complex? A while ago, the official blog of LibreOffice published a provocative article: “An artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool.” Its target is Microsoft’s XML-based file formats — the Office Open XML (OOXML). The article alleges that, although Microsoft put its Office formats through standardization, the spec is engineered to be so complex that it obstructs interoperability with third-party software. Moreover, the complexity is allegedly gratuitous and disco

Topics: microsoft office ooxml text xml

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Show HN: I Built a XSLT Blog Framework

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 07:38:30

TLDR I created a blog publishing framework built on XSLT. You can see it at https://xsltblogdemo.vgr.land/ and get the source here https://github.com/vgr-land/vgr-xslt-blog-framework Introduction Why build my own web publishing framework? It doesn't make any sense to do so. There are enough web frameworks out there to last everyone the rest of time. I wrote this for me. Once I learned the simple flow of XSLT driven site development I realized I was able to get what I want with little effort a

Topics: blog content framework xml xslt

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Show HN: JavaScript-free (X)HTML Includes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 10:47:30

This is a simple example of using browsers' built in XSL support to build a website with common theming across all pages without any server-side code, static website generators, or Javascript. See the demo site How it works When you browse to index.xml (or any of the other XML files), the browser loads the template file given at the top of the XML. This template file describes how to render the various custom tags in the XML as HTML.

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XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-29 15:38:57

What is the issue with the HTML Standard? One of the issues we've seen in #11523 and #11563 is that the proposal to remove XSLT from the spec doesn't acknowledge existing use cases beyond Chrome Status counter stats. According to Chrome's own Blink principles of web compatibility: The primary signal we use is the fraction of page views impacted in Chrome, usually computed via Blink’s UseCounter UMA metrics. As a general rule of thumb, 0.1% of PageVisits (1 in 1000) is large, while 0.001% is c

Topics: client https weather xml xslt

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Supporting org.apache.xml.security in graalVM

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-17 16:03:04

Supporting org.apache.xml.security in graalVM When working today at out european trusted lists feature $DAY_JOB we had an issue which was coming from org.apache.xml.security when trying to run our testsuite natively compiled with graalVM. java.util.MissingResourceException: Can't find bundle for base name org/apache/xml/security/resource/xmlsecurity locale en_US -H:IncludeResourceBundles=org.apache.xml.security.resource.xmlsecurity org.apache.xml.security.signature.XMLSignatureException: The

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From XML to JSON to CBOR

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 11:31:12

In modern computing, data exchange is foundational to everything from web browsing to microservices and IoT devices. The ability for different systems to represent, share, and interpret structured information drives our digital world. Yet no single perfect format has emerged to meet all needs. Instead, we've seen an evolution of data interchange formats, each addressing the specific challenges and technical requirements of its time. This narrative traces three pivotal data formats: Extensible M

Topics: cbor data json web xml

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XSLT: A Precision Tool for the Future of Structured Transformation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-03 03:48:05

Vasu Chakkera gives a summary of some of the varied enterprise uses for XSLT Introduction While modern development trends lean toward JSON and microservices, XML continues to operate quietly but powerfully beneath the surface in enterprise domains like finance, healthcare, legal, education, and digital publishing. In these spaces, where precision, structure, and longevity are non-negotiable, XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) remains one of the most capable — and often under

Topics: json streaming xml xsl xslt

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XMLUI

news.ycombinator.com View All Posts Jon Udell 2026-01-03 10:03:39

In the mid-1990s you could create useful software without being an ace coder. You had Visual Basic, you had a rich ecosystem of components, you could wire them together to create apps, standing on the shoulders of the coders who built those components. If you’re younger than 45 you may not know what that was like, nor realize web components have never worked the same way. The project we’re announcing today, XMLUI, brings the VB model to the modern web and its React-based component ecosystem. XML

Topics: app component components react xmlui

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LibreOffice slams Microsoft for locking in Office users w/ complex file formats

news.ycombinator.com David Uzondu 2026-01-04 15:30:58

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works LibreOffice has been on the offensive lately, taking the time to call out Microsoft and its practices whenever it can. Now, it is at it again, accusing Microsoft of "intentionally" using "unnecessarily complex" file formats to achieve user lock-in with its Microsoft 365 (Office) documents. For those who don't know, XML is a markup language that programs like Microsoft 365 and LibreOffice use t

Topics: file libreoffice microsoft office xml

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Show HN: A different kind of AI Video generation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-08 22:24:20

Hello! I'm Andrew Arrow, a developer and Final Cut Pro user. My history with FCP goes back years and years, I tried to be a video editor as a career but ended up a software developer. I purchased the full version of the software a long, long time ago. And to Apple's credit, every single time I goto the App Store on any mac I still have access to download it. I must have been through 20, 30? I don't know, but a lot of macs over the years. Just recently I downloaded it again and noticed the XML E

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XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-15 21:00:41

XSLT XSLT (1999): native, zero-config build system for the Web. From: Grug brain Paco To: Paco Subject: XSLT most static websites created like this data ( .json , .md , .txt ) , , ) build system (Hugo, Next.js, Astro, …) output (static HTML) me make many website, find build system has much complexity. not understand big project like React Next.js, need many PhD for understand how my markdown blog work me want remove framework (many grug do), want use simple HTML and CSS, use sacred spec

Topics: blog html like web xml

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Libxml2's "no security embargoes" policy

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-19 04:36:55

Libxml2's "no security embargoes" policy [LWN subscriber-only content] Welcome to LWN.net The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of subscribers depend on LWN for the best news from the Linux and free software communities. If you enjoy this article, please consider subscribing to LWN. Thank you for visiting LWN.net! Libxml2, an XML parser and toolkit, is an almost perfect example of the successes and failures of the open-source mov

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Unexpected security footguns in Go's parsers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-23 03:35:12

In Go applications, parsing untrusted data creates a dangerous attack surface that’s routinely exploited in the wild. During our security assessments, we’ve repeatedly exploited unexpected behaviors in Go’s JSON, XML, and YAML parsers to bypass authentication, circumvent authorization controls, and exfiltrate sensitive data from production systems. These aren’t theoretical issues—they’ve led to documented vulnerabilities like CVE-2020-16250 (a Hashicorp Vault authentication bypass found by Goog

Topics: data field json parser xml

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Latest Tech News

Is OOXML Artifically Complex?

Show HN: I Built a XSLT Blog Framework

Show HN: JavaScript-free (X)HTML Includes

XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites

Supporting org.apache.xml.security in graalVM

From XML to JSON to CBOR

XSLT: A Precision Tool for the Future of Structured Transformation

XMLUI

LibreOffice slams Microsoft for locking in Office users w/ complex file formats

Show HN: A different kind of AI Video generation

XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web

Libxml2's "no security embargoes" policy

Unexpected security footguns in Go's parsers

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