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Subject: Re: [office] The Rule of Least Power
robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote: > "When designing computer systems, one is often faced with a choice between > using a more or less powerful language for publishing information, for > expressing constraints, or for solving some problem. This finding explores > tradeoffs relating the choice of language to reusability of information. > The 'Rule of Least Power' suggests choosing the least powerful language > suitable for a given purpose." I think that my understanding of intent of authors of this document is very different from you. I don't think that this TAG finding is discouraging use of general extensibility mechanism. My understanding is that rule of least power prefers markup like: <p>foo</p> over <p> <r> <t>foo</t> </r> </p> You can find another TAG findings related to XML versioning and extensibility strategies: http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/versioning-compatibility-strategies#dt-extensible http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/versioning-xml So I don't think that picking up some arbitrary TAG finding is a good argument agains/in favour of general extensibility. Jirka -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka@kosek.cz http://xmlguru.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------ Professional XML consulting and training services DocBook customization, custom XSLT/XSL-FO document processing ------------------------------------------------------------------ OASIS DocBook TC member, W3C Invited Expert, ISO JTC1/SC34 member ------------------------------------------------------------------
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