RE: [xml-dev] What's your ideology for how applications should be created?

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Michael Kay <>
To
"'Costello, Roger L.'" <>,
Date
2008-12-20T15:45:32
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RE: [xml-dev] What's your ideology for how applications should be created?
> Here is the Michael Kay ideology, in a nutshell:
> 
> Create workflow-based applications. Design XML documents to 
> mimic documents in the physical world. Store the XML 
> documents centrally, in an XML database. Pass around URLs to 
> the documents. Use an all-XML solution; avoid using 
> imperative languages. 
> 
> What's your ideology for how applications should be created?
> 
> /Roger
> 
> P.S. Michael Kay, I hope that I have accurately portrayed 
> your ideology. Please correct any errors.

It's a good precis of my article, but I wouldn't describe it as an ideology.
It's just an engineering approach to a class of problems. "Idealogy" to me
implies some kind of ethical belief system, whereas this is purely pragmatic
problem solving.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/