bad / redundant html ?

cybmole · 12-29-2010, 11:49 AM

cleaning en Epub from a poor quality source, with sigil, prior to converting to mobi in calibre....

I have removed well over 100 instances of

Code:

</span> <span class="none">

which would frequently appear either mid-word or between 2 words in a sentence.
e.g.
"
A thought was enough. Micah and Nathaniel were sitting just outside, one against the wall, the other sitting on the floor. ....."

This was always to be found embedded within an outer "span class ="none" ....- end span" HTML construct- thus completely redundant ?. I googled HTML span but was not a lot wiser :-(

I could see no logical reason for it to be there & removing it seems to have done no harm, but I'm curious as to what put it therein the 1st place - & why.

I think the source had been processed in word then reconverted to epub, FWIW.

12-29-2010, 11:49 AM	#1
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	bad / redundant html ? cleaning en Epub from a poor quality source, with sigil, prior to converting to mobi in calibre.... I have removed well over 100 instances of Code: </span> <span class="none"> which would frequently appear either mid-word or between 2 words in a sentence. e.g. " <p class="calibre2"><span class="none">A thought was enough. Micah and Nathaniel were sitting just outside, one against the wall, the other sitting on</span> <span class="none">the</span> <span class="none">floor. ....." This was always to be found embedded within an outer "span class ="none" ....- end span" HTML construct- thus completely redundant ?. I googled HTML span but was not a lot wiser :-( I could see no logical reason for it to be there & removing it seems to have done no harm, but I'm curious as to what put it therein the 1st place - & why. I think the source had been processed in word then reconverted to epub, FWIW. Last edited by cybmole; 12-29-2010 at 11:54 AM.

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