Highly Declarative Designs

Hi Folks,

Issue: What are the characteristics of a highly declarative design?

I propose this as a characteristic:

    If you can ask a question and get the answer by
    exclusively navigating markup, without any processing
    of data, then you have a highly declarative design.

More ... http://www.xfront.com/Highly-Declarative-Designs.pdf

Comments welcome.

/Roger