RE: Rule of Least Power from Bullard, Claude L \(Len\) on 2006-03-10 (www-tag@w3.org from March 2006)

From: Bullard, Claude L \(Len\) <len.bullard@intergraph.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 07:59:19 -0600
To: "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org>, "Cutler, Roger \(RogerCutler\)" <RogerCutler@chevron.com>
Cc: <www-tag@w3.org>
Message-ID: <15725CF6AFE2F34DB8A5B4770B7334EE0BB1FF55@hq1.ingr-corp.com>

To determine when to apply the Rule of Least Power 
determine when maximum reuse/indexability of the data is 
legitimate.  How is a separate issue given a continuum 
of data to objects.

*Legitimacy* is a key concept.  See Aldo de Moor's writings.

len


From: www-tag-request@w3.org [mailto:www-tag-request@w3.org]

Hmmm. Maybe it comes across wrong.
I don't think the message is so much about programming procedural  
things using
declarative languages and tricks.  There is a common theme that the  
information
should be analyzable.

Have you given up using CSS? CSS is declarative -- not a general  
functional programming language, but a specific set of declarations  
you can make about style.  It is generally in its target application  
space simpler and clearer than the XSLT to do the same thing.

Tim

Received on Friday, 10 March 2006 14:02:08 UTC