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".] > > > >-- >To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] >Problems? >http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: >http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >deleted -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Mobiltelefon mit K-9 Mail gesendet. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
