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Old 03-05-2016, 12:43 AM   #1037
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Originally Posted by BetterRed View Post
So my question is, can Modify be adjusted to remove these unreferenced spans.
The problem with that IDea* is that Modify doesn't build a table of IDs such that it can look and see which ones get referenced and which don't. It's an in-the-moment tool, not a holistic one, and this is one of the shortcomings of that approach. Since removing referenced spans would be A Very Bad Thing for navigation, the only remaining practical option Modify has is to assume that ID attributes are significant and must be preserved.

I run into a similar situation all the time with CSS classes. As a result, sometimes I end up running my "cleanup" script (applying Modify with a certain profile, including strip-spans) multiple times while processing a particularly obnoxious book. It's annoying, but there's really no help for it.

* Hee. Cheap puns are fun.
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