Web Publish Feature: Add the ability to create new templates.

probably a better idea would be to use a standard XML export format, and then just use a Transform to get the look and feel required. That way all the work is in the transform, and DL can just work on exporting into a rich XML format.

All the styles/scripts on a per template basis could just be incorporated into the transform for each template.

What's a Transform?

a transform is a an XSLT (XML Style-sheet);

as untechnically as possible it a special XML file that provides a way to convert XML files into different formats including other XML formats or even HTML

Primarily, a transform is useful in that this formatting can make two applications that both "speak" XML in different formats able to exchange information as each converts any XML communication from each other into a format they can read. Just like a translator.

Thanks for explaining. But is a Transform something that you imagine there being a thriving third-party business opportunity for? Or is this something that competent users would create and share with other users? (Note that I doubt I would be one of those "competent users".)

I think the latter, since the business of creating the transform would generally be a one time thing (unless the export format changed for any reason). The only pieces that would change would be the html surrounding the transform, the images and the CSS style-sheet. All things any competent web designer could achieve quickly.

The hard work would have to go into the XML export format and the original design of the transform to be as flexible as possible.

I hope to have created an example fairly soon by converting one of the existing templates into a XML/XSLT pair to show how it could work.