The mapping of DITA element tags that can be resolved as styled paragraphs in Word is being investigated. Some elements are containers of others elements that in turn contain the text that is rendered in word.
The idea is that Style + Content = Tag and Tag + Content = Style depending if one is going from Word to DITA or DITA to Word. The processor needs to know several thing before it can render a DITA file with the correct style names, style format and document structure restrictions. A Style is made up of many properties that can be established for each of the base DITA element Tag. Each Tag is uniquely defined by the set of base DITA DTDs and schemas. The content is really the only variable that needs to be rained in by the user interface and DOC to DITA to DOC processor. Tags can be specialized in DITA but as long as they fall back to the topic base tags, the Style to use when the content is in Word can be determined. These Styles in turn will be used to save the content back a DITA info-type file.