[DiapDealer]

I'm not insisting that people adopt my terminology. I was just trying to figure out exactly what people were discussing. But having said that, "empty span" still makes no sense to me when used to describe spans that contain text content between them. I use "naked" to describe tags that are devoid of any attributes. I never hear anyone referring to empty paragraph tags (except where <p></p> was used in an attempt to create vertical space). Yet there are probably more "empty paragraphs" (to use the current empty span parlance) than empty spans.

In the end... as long as I know what's being described, feel free to call them whatever you (rhetorical) want. *shrug*