I really don't think this will be the case. The most common case will
be that a user gets some HTML, and uses his local stylesheets for
display purposes. In the cases you mention, it is probably better to
send PDF (aren't you guys working on this anyway? ;-)), or perhaps
RTF (no, I'm not really serious).
I for one, would be most unhappy if I had to download style
information along with every document I retrieved.
><BODY font.family = helvetica; font.style = bold; font.color = #000>
Please give me a list of all formatting attributes that will ever be
needed.
The above goes against a fundamental tenet of SGML (and after a long
painful period of debate, HTML), which is that the data should be as
independent as possible from style information.