Should the web platform adopt XSLT 3.0?

Summary

What is the issue with the HTML Standard? Background This is a follow-up to #11523. That issue raises concerns regarding security issues, code maintainability, and the complexity of aging browser code currently used for rendering XML with XSLT stylesheets. I highly recommend reading through that issue first as it includes a good background of XSLT on the web as well as the specific concerns that may lead to deprecating XSLT as the most prudent option for browser vendors. As a reminder, please read the whatwg Code of Conduct. This issue is intended to be a discussion of alternatives to deprecations and how the concerns raised in #11523 may be handled to mitigate the risks for both browser maintainers and users. Please stay on topic here by discussing the pros and cons of XSLT v3.0 support, alternatives, etc. Discussions related to assumed motivations, specific browser vendors, etc. aren't relevant here and will likely just result in the issue being locked, preventing us from having the important discussion in public here. What is the issue with the HTML Standard? The XSLT 1.0 specification was originally standardized in 1999. Though the W3C has subsequently defined 2.0 and 3.0 specifications for XSLT, most browsers today never added support beyond v1.0. In addition, cross-browser functionality for XSLT is incomplete with certain features like <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"> having open issues dating back over two decades with no fix in sight. I raise longstanding issues in general as a challenge related to the concerns of maintainability and relatively little use of XSLT 1.0 today, not as a concern over prioritization or resource allocation by browser vendors. The question of use of XSLT today, raised in #11523, raises an interesting question. Is the low usage statistics of XSLT today an indication of the usefulness of the specification in today's web, or an indication of the challenges of dealing with v1.0 limitations and bugs? Deprecating XSLT entirely ass...