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
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