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 It should be noted that this water cooler list has produced best practices at times. Of particular interest is Roger Costello's leadership as evidenced by www.xfront.com . His technique has been straightforward. From time to time, he asks a question or series of questions on a topic. Interested parties with relevant experience answer. One might consider that anecdotal except that each answer published on this list is usually met with critique either from Roger or from other members, or all. Roger sorts these out and responds eventually with a synthesized and winnowed presentation. Xfront, as a result, has become an excellent resource with examples vetted by experience. Mathematical proofs and elegance have their place. So does experience and distillation. This may someday prompt a mathematical investigation of why these practices work, and that investigation may uncover even deeper principles. These will be codified, studied, and taught. They might even improve the working systems. Time will tell. Markup systems emerged from the publishing communities made up of editors, typesetters, print system manufacturers, publishers and even some lawyers and computer scientists. Now, it is clearly in the hands of and under the control of the computer scientists. Make of it what you can but keep in mind that those from whom it originates were solving specific problems and generalizing from these, not creating mathematical edifices. Between the pragmatic and the elegant, there is a wealth of applications to be built and those that build find the proofs they need in the running code and their stubbed toes. That is why it's called the 'bleeding' edge. If one needs proofs first, one is frightened of tomorrow instead of excited by the prospect of discovery. Prudence, not prudish. len From: Rick Marshall [mailto:rjm@z...] that's why there's conservative people and risk taking people and bits in between. you may have to wait until it's proven best practice - rdbms technology took at least 15 years to be accepted as such, and to a large extent i think that what was delivered was proven best brochures and proven tier one suppliers - neither has a lot to do with proven best technology - but this approach meets all sorts of contractual requirements i guess i'm lucky in having a number of clients who have a different approach and encourage use of sometimes experimental techniques to try and get a business advantage. in 10 years or so the experience of early adopters will provide the proven technology you need for more conservative projects. it's all part of our complex business :) 
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