# XML/XSL for view& print -- pro or con?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-xsl-for-view-print-pro-or-con/641230
**Category:** web dev
**Created:** [December 2, 2019, 9:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-xsl-for-view-print-pro-or-con/641230 "2019-12-02T21:33:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@gNeandr](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/gNeandr)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2019, 9:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-xsl-for-view-print-pro-or-con/641230/1 "2019-12-02T21:33:57Z")
What is the experience to use XML/XSL as View & Print Generator?
Is the use of XSLTProcessor future-proof? The main focus is the use in Firefox/Chrome.
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### Author:  [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2019, 11:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-xsl-for-view-print-pro-or-con/641230/2 "2019-12-07T11:27:57Z")
Sorry - not fully following. Are you trying to add printing support to your page?
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### Author:  [@gNeandr](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/gNeandr)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2019, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-xsl-for-view-print-pro-or-con/641230/3 "2019-12-07T13:34:44Z")
In fact with a Firefox/Thunderbird addon I’m using XSLT and friends to generate a web page from actual ICS event data. Because there are massive changes with Mozilla I would like to understand what’s a long term view with that XSLT technology. It seems there are big projects out there using it, but is that a good sign for the future also? Maybe there are other/better/easier technolgies?
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### Author:  [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2019, 8:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-xsl-for-view-print-pro-or-con/641230/4 "2019-12-08T08:13:20Z")
Backwards compatibility is a big part of the web. Unless XSLT is marked for deprecation, which it isn’t currently, you are safe to use it 😀