• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• To: "'Costello, Roger L.'" <costello@m...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:45:32 -0000

> 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/

• References:
  • What's your ideology for how applications should be created?
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>