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Costello, Roger L. scripsit: > 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 Read that; interesting. Of course, what counts as "navigating markup" partly depends on the accident of what happens to be available in XPath, which is a very different story between 1.0 and 2.0. So I don't think there's any theoretical distinction here, just a practical one, generally consistent with the idea that my code is just data consumed by your interpreter. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org http://ccil.org/~cowan If a traveler were informed that such a man [as Lord John Russell] was leader of the House of Commons, he may well begin to comprehend how the Egyptians worshiped an insect. --Benjamin Disraeli
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