Hi :) I don't know of an Extension that might do this but then i have never looked for one tbh.
It might be smart to test that removing them doesn't affect the whole document before starting. Create a copy of the whole document, or even just a copy of the "contents.xml" and then try on a small sample. I guess you have already tried that though! Regards from Tom :) On 25 September 2015 at 20:42, Florian Reisinger <flo...@libreoffice.org> wrote: > 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 < > m...@speleotrove.com>: > > > >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: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > >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: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > 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 > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org 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
