> To this beginner, that seemed to fly against the idea of separating
> content
> from presentation, and "felt" sort of like sprinkling font tags through
> the
> document.

The overzealous, who are legion, get massively hung up on the whole
"semantic markup" thing when it comes to such matters as spans used as
hooks for styling. Although nobody wants a return to the tag soup of old,
a look at the standard tells us:

"These elements define content to be inline (SPAN) or block-level (DIV)
but impose no other presentational idioms on the content. Thus, authors
may use these elements in conjunction with style sheets, the lang
attribute, etc., to tailor HTML to their own needs and tastes."
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#edef-SPAN>

So I'd say don't worry about it.

HTH,

Nick.
-- 
Nick Fitzsimons
http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/
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