map p+class and span+class to para and char style names in html to docx, odt, icml and vice versa

[massifrg <massifrg-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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Hello,
I'm working on documents marked up with XHTML.
I wrote some utilities to convert them in docx, pdf (through PrinceXML or 
ConTeXt) and ICML.
Those utilities are far from complete and I'd like to use Pandoc instead.

It would be great to convert <p class=...> and <span class=...> elements to 
some corresponding paragraph and character styles in docx, odt and ICML.
The concepts of paragraph styles and character styles are common in Word, 
OpenOffice/Libreoffice Writer and InDesign (and not only them).
They map well to HTML's p+class and span+class.

In Pandoc, paragraphs lack attributes(see Pandoc.Text.Definition 
<http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pandoc-types-1.12.4.4/docs/Text-Pandoc-Definition.html>), 
even if there's a workaround (see here 
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/pandoc-discuss/paragraph$20attributes/pandoc-discuss/hmcT7edsHd8/SH-l8AWYiqoJ>
).

It would be really useful if Pandoc mapped p+class and span+class elements 
to para and char styles with the same name in docx, odt, icml.
What do you think?

I think it should be an option that you could toggle (i.e. "--map-styles"). 
Something like (or working with) --reference-odt and --reference-docx (and 
maybe --reference-icml or --reference-idml in the future), but not limited 
to a fixed set of styles.

I don't know how they should be marked up in markdown, but since it would 
be specific to those formats, markdown writer could simply ignore that 
feature.

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