I've worked through Gary's helpful tutorial and have played around a bit exporting pages from one or two of the html templates. Interesting, and I can see how this approach might be useful. But the source code Xara produces is awfully dense and looks like it would be hard to maintain 'by hand'.

Seems to me either you'd have to stick with the WYSIWYG approach or else put in a lot of tedious labour cleaning up the code so that you could work with it. I suppose you could use the html export thing to produce a very bare-bones skeleton--just to sketch out the layout--but otherwise I'm about to conclude that it won't be of much use to me.

I'm curious to know what others think about this.