If you choose, you may continue to intentionally misunderstand what BB is trying to say, insisting that he use your vocabulary instead of his own, but in doing so you won't be contributing to anyone else's understanding of the problems.
You read evil intent on my part simply because we disagree.
It seems that your basic contention is that the automatic creation of derivative formats from a single master format is simply not possible. Fair enough, this kind of defeatism is common, and sometimes even accurate. The evidence you offer for this belief is that Mr. Perathoner's processes don't do their intended job well.
You again assign evil intent to what I am saying "labeling" it as defeatism, when I am simply trying to point out the weaknesses of what you propose, and that makes you uncomfortable. The automatic creation of derivative formats from an "HTML" "master" format is very problematic, which I'm sure Marcello and others can tell you. If that is what you are trying to do, you might consider instead specifying an XML spec that actually specifies that which you think needs to be specified. That still won't get you anywhere unless you have an army of people willing to buy into that XML specification, and realistically the only place to get that army is from DP. Which god forbid would mean that PG and DP would have to learn to get together and work together in a constructive manner, and which might lead to some of the DP semiautomated tools which might be a practical source of many of the problems we see today might get improved. Go talk to DP and see if you can get an army, or, if in practice, they just blow you off. Failing your ability to get that army, I would personally be happy just to have the ability to take a PG book which for a variety of silly reasons is in practice not readable on EPUB and MOBI devices today and make it readable. I personally would be happy to have that "snowflake" exist simply as long as it takes you guys *in practice* to get your act together and accomplish that which you claim you will accomplish. If you extinguish my "snowflake" by offering something someday which in fact actually proves to be better for the end reader, then you go boy! Again, what I see in practice today continues to be simply "the dogs guarding the straw." Spin the straw into gold and I am happy to see that gold. I am just tired of waiting to see that spinning when I all I hear instead is bold talking. I have been waiting years now to see PG *in practice* offer useful readable pleasant MOBI and EPUB books.