Well technically XPath is an autonous language and is a strong basis of XSLT
(1) It would help to clarify XPath status 
(2) it would be helpful to know if there is way to reactivate those API if 
we solve the security issues (via rust implementation ?)
Le vendredi 31 octobre 2025 à 22:11:15 UTC+1, Mason Freed a écrit :

> On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM PhistucK <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Just to verify, this will not remove document.evaluate which depends on 
>> XPath - right? It is the only way to natively find an element by text and 
>> other advanced combinations as far as I know.
>>
>
> Yep, great question. We are absolutely *not* removing 
> `document.evaluate()` or XPath generally. That's part of XML, not XSLT. 
> (Side note, there are other native methods such as NodeIterator / 
> TreeWalker, but those obviously don't offer such a compact way to search 
> for text content.)
>
> Thanks,
> Mason
>
>  
>
>>
>> ☆*PhistucK*
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM Mason Freed <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you all, I appreciate it. I'll be back in a few months with an 
>>> update on the pre-stable experiment, plus any other feedback I've received.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mason
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM Mike Taylor <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> LGTM3
>>>> On 10/29/25 11:42 a.m., Chris Harrelson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> LGTM2 for the steps Vlad mentioned.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 8:38 AM Vladimir Levin <[email protected]> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hey, we discussed this at API owners today. 
>>>>>
>>>>> Generally, we're supportive of removing XSLT. As for the plan, I think 
>>>>> it would be best if we disable this in Canary as soon as possible (via 
>>>>> Finch) to find real breakages that we may be missing. Further, disabling 
>>>>> in 
>>>>> Beta and Dev shortly after to get more data is also good. 
>>>>>
>>>>> LGTM1 for the plan with the above changes. We would like you to check 
>>>>> in with results of Canary / Dev / Beta and warning steps in 3 months to 
>>>>> see 
>>>>> how we proceed further.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Vlad
>>>>>
>>>>> On Monday, October 27, 2025 at 9:37:51 AM UTC-4 j.j. wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> see also 
>>>>>> https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1287
>>>>>>
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