Greg

> >I also need boxes with rounded corners, and on my
> >googling trail I have come across numerous "solutions"
> >that involve extra DIVs containing rounded corner
> >images; these having no semantic meaning whatsoever.
> 
> Isn't DIV precisely for blocks that have no specific
> semantic meaning (other than being a block of
> something)?

My understanding of "semantic markup" is that there will be no markup on the page without semantic meaning. A DIV is the markup for a logical page division. Images of rounded corners have no semantic meaning whatsoever, they are purely presentation. Therefore, they should not appear in the markup. Even if one specifies the rounded corner images through CSS using an empty DIV, the markup is still contaminated.

As I understand it, [one of] the point[s] of pursuing the goal of seperated style and content is that one will end up with a valid XML document that can be outputted in any format of choice with no further effort. If one ends up with empty DIVs and images used for styling only, then one must edit the document before it can be used elsewhere.

Regards

Chris Marsh