I was hoping that XSLT could help me generate my my web pages. Unfortunately XSLT doesn't seem to help with any of the things I wanted to do:

  1. "Last modified" timestamp based on the timestamp of the original .xml file.
  2. Automatically genenerated navigation bar that links to related documents (parent, children, etc.).
  3. A list of recently added links (based on either explicit timestamps or by using version control).

It seems that for any of these features, I need to write my own XML processing code. So I'm holding off on learning XSLT. It only does simple things. Maybe I'll revisit it later after I implement the more important features for my site.

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Amit wrote at Tuesday, June 1, 2021 at 10:49:00 AM PDT

Spoiler: I ended up using it, and kept adding features, like https://simblob.blogspot.com/2018/12/printing-my-pages.html and https://twitter.com/redblobgames/status/1399784365886906370