Hi All,
My feeling is that we're talking about two fundamentally different approaches here. Both have their merits and use cases.
I'd like to help you further, bobagrand, but I have to admit that I haven't yet worked with decorated HTML at all. I guess the question is how to access all the data in the decorated HTML inside your Launch Rules and Actions.
Sounds to me like a blog article I need to write once I worked it out...