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@DNSB...As as habit, I usually always try to keep my epub CSS as simple as possible for my own ebooks. By that I mean that I never use combinators and such. There's no need for using combinators in the CSS styling for my own ebooks.

Also, since I have already said in a separate post above that I will be adding an option for removing empty spans only, this should hopefully satisfy and protect your need to use span combinators in your CSS whenever you use the plugin. Of course, if you choose not to use the plugin's new "Remove empty spans" option(coming soon in an update) then please be aware that any unwanted empty spans that ARE empty spans(not combinators) in your epub will not be removed.