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If you want to know why Adobe InDesign wraps empty spans around everything then you should remember the bad old days of iBook epubs. In those days Apple goofed hugely with their proprietary epub format such that you had to wrap everything and anything that was centered in empty spans(spans with no styling). I think this problem has now been fixed by Apple(it only took them 6 or 7 years to fix it). You can read about this on Liz Castro's old website. This is why InDesign still wraps all text in spans. I call this InDesign feature Adobe Overkill. Unfortunately InDesign still surrounds all text with empty span tags even now. And yes, they are even slower than Apple at fixing anything.