You are correct, it hasn't been 'officially' deprecated but as visual tags and not logical ones; CSS offers a better long term solution.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xhtml2-20050527/elements.html seems to agree. Regarding books, if you carry extra [per book] information in the context of the book title then a definition list would suit your needs. <CITE> would certainly play a part within the list. ---- <b> is not deprecated, it just has no semantic value and in the fight to get people to markup their content semantically instead of visually, <b> and <i> became clear targets. Unfortunately, this means that many people think they should use <strong> and <em> when they really should use <b> and <i>. It's similar to the people who bend over backwards in order to put tabular data in some sort of floating list construct, just because they think that CSS-styled markup should not have the table tag. ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
