---
title: "Making XML human-readable without XSLT"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/making-xml-human-readable-without-xslt-tf0xrdfdb
source_url: https://jakearchibald.com/2025/making-xml-human-readable-without-xslt/
type: article
source: "Jake Archibald"
published: 2025-09-02T17:46:31.238Z
updated: 2025-09-02T17:46:52.169Z
tags: ["webdev", "javascript", "html"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 3
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Making XML human-readable without XSLT

**[Jake Archibald](https://daily.dev/sources/jakearchibald)** · 7 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Browsers are considering removing XSLT support due to low usage and security concerns. The post demonstrates how to transform XML into human-readable HTML using JavaScript instead of XSLT, including techniques for creating proper HTML elements in XML documents and using templating functions for data transformation.

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