Hi,

One possible reason is hard formatting. By adding and removing a style 
hardcoded empty span tags can appear. However this should not happen when using 
styles (even for bold and so on).

I read this some time ago. Hope that helps :)

Am 25. September 2015 21:36:08 MESZ, schrieb Mike Cowlishaw 
<[email protected]>:
> 
>I am the editor of a document [the IEEE 754-2008 standard] that was
>created
>around 15 years ago (using OpenOffice), and has had nearly 200 drafts,
>a
>number of editors, and countless edits. It was last changed in 2008,
>but is
>now about to go though a new revision cycle.
>
>I was delighted to find that LibreOffice handled the 2008 .odt file
>almost
>perfectly, with only 7 errors (all were weird spurious empty reference
>tags,
>of unknown provenance, that OpenOffice quietly ignored).
>
>While identifying and removing those from the content.xml, I noticed
>that
>there are hundreds (possibly thousands) of redundant tags. These are
>typically in the context: <span whatever>text1</span><span
>whatever>text2</span> where 'whatever' is identical, and either or both
>'text1' or 'text2' may be empty.
>
>It there a tool to clean these up? I could write one myself (I recently
>wrote an XML parser) but if one already exists ...
>
>Many thanks -- Mike Cowlishaw
>
>[Apologies if this is a duplicate .. I tried it on askLibo some time
>ago but
>it is still "awaiting moderation".]
>
>
>
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