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Highly Declarative Designs

• From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
• To: "xml-dev@lists.xml.org" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
• Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 09:17:03 -0500

Hi Folks,

Issue: What are the characteristics of a highly declarative design?

I propose this as a characteristic:

    If you can ask a question and get the answer by
    exclusively navigating markup, without any processing
    of data, then you have a highly declarative design.

More ... http://www.xfront.com/Highly-Declarative-Designs.pdf

Comments welcome.

/Roger

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