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Hi Trevor,

This is a great topic for debate, and you will find many different opinions about it. My personal opinion is that the use of using formats to control formatting is the better approach. I think this because

1 - Your EDD can be easily swapped between templates
2 - Your EDD is much simpler. Once an EDD get long with formatting rules, it is nearly impossible to decode unless you wrote it.
3 - You can use your structured documents reliably with any FrameMaker gizmo or process that depends on formats, such as automatic file generation.
4 - You can use your structured documents with Quadralay products and base mappings on paragraph formats, as Quadralay's support for structural metadata is notoriously weak.

Just my opinion, for what it's worth.
Russ