Show HN: JavaScript-free (X)HTML Includes

[Evidlo]

(spoiler: its XSLT)
I've been working on a little demo for how to avoid copy-pasting header/footer boilerplate on a simple static webpage. My goal is to approximate the experience of Jekyll/Hugo but eliminate the need for a build step before publishing. This demo shows how to get basic templating features with XSL so you could write a blog post which looks like

          some content
          
[LIST]

              
[*]hello

              
[*]hello

          
[/LIST]

Some properties which set this approach apart from other methods:

  - no build step (no need to setup Jekyll on the client or configure Github/Gitlab actions)
  - works on any webserver (e.g. as opposed to server-side includes, actions)
  - normal looking URLs (e.g. `example.com/foobar` as opposed to `example.com/#page=foobar`)

There's been some talk about removing XSLT support from the HTML spec [0], so I figured I would show this proof of concept while it still works.
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44952185
See also: grug-brain XSLT https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44393817

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