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Multiple MB?

I'm looking at: https://github.com/mfreed7/xslt_polyfill

Which uses: https://github.com/DesignLiquido/xslt-processor/tree/main

But they don't look that heavy. Am I missing something? Megabytes of JS would be enormous.

> The implementation is all agnostic about namespaces. It just expects XSLT elements to have tags that carry the xsl: prefix, but we disregard all namespace declaration for them.

Just for a start. It's a tiny polyfill for a tiny subset of the thing that is XSLT 1.0.

xslt-polyfill.min.js is 1.3 MB on its own

https://github.com/mfreed7/xslt_polyfill/blob/main/xslt-poly...

I see, thank you -- so it's not the JavaScript part, it's basically 99% a huge WASM blob. I can understand not wanting to include something like that, yikes.

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