I'm not sure if this is the right place for a suggestion, If not please move this post as needed.
In the skin editor it would be nice to have a "$this" tag that allowed access to items below it. It would allow for easier reuse of containers within a skin. For example, I am using pop-up photos. Each photo has an image, hotspot, text, a container, and hotspot image. Current each of these item must be renamed to a unique name for each instance. However with a $this tag you would only need to rename the top item. All other could be addressed as $this.image, $this,hotspot, $this.text, .....