On Nov 26, 2013 4:34 PM, "John Yates" <john@yates-sheets.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 2:05 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org> wrote:
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>> But having an
>> additional level of indirection (which is being called "style" in this
>> thread) is going to be very useful in organizing these things.
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> Another form of indirection would be to allow abstract mark-up.  In the context of today's face model it would be nice to be able to mark a span with an abstract property or face (e.g. emphasis) without binding it immediately to concrete face attributes.  

Is no that what is done normally in XML documents? (Html/css, office, etc)? I think this belongs to the structure.