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@DNSB,

"Unfortunately, when I run the plugin, the tags surrounding the blank spaces removed are not removed (see in my sample where <span class="italic"> </span> is converted to <span class="italic/> without the space. So when I preview the text, I see testfor instead of test<space>for."

Nowhere in my plugin do I deliberately convert spans containing blank spaces from this:

<span class="italic"> </span>

To a single span like this:

<span class="italic/>

I have also seen ids written written in HTML code like this:

[COLOR="Black"]<h1><a id="toc5886890"></a>CHAPTER 1</h1>

. . . which are automatically changed to this when acted upon by python's BeautifulSoup module:

[COLOR="Black"]<h1><a id="toc5886890"/>CHAPTER 1</h1>

I use the BeautifulSoup module alot in my plugin. It therefore seems that BeautifulSoup tends to automatically convert a standard double tag to single tag format if the <span> contains no actual text. I don't think I can fix that one because that problem seems to be caused by a quirk in Python's BeautifulSoup module. But as I've already mentioned in a previous post, if you simply make sure to avoid surrounding just blank spaces with <span> tags then you wouldn't have that problem would you?