Great thoughts, Markus.
You're right about stuff like SVG. Tree-editing
wouldn't help much. Some sort of encapsulation
mechanism is necessary that says "render if able".
For more vanilla data trees and documents, though,
I think that generalized editing is still conceivable
-- especially if a few basics like <i> and <b> are
standardized.
The DTD might then include the style definitions
I alluded to saying, in effect: <def> == <i>.
The editor might then have standard DTDs for common
file types, but be able to do a reasonable job with
even very non-standard types without a DTD, and do
a great job if the DTD were available, as well.
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