[TYPO3] RTE: Span tags being removed from content

[Cyprian Kowalczyk]

Here is my  RTE config places in the page's TSconfig:

RTE.default {
   showButtons (
     blockstylelabel, blockstyle, textstylelabel, textstyle, formatblock,  
bold, italic, subscript, superscript,
     left, center, right, justifyfull, orderedlist, unorderedlist,  
textindicator, insertcharacter, line, link, image, table,
     acronym, findreplace, chMode, inserttag, removeformat, copy, cut,  
paste, undo, redo, showhelp, about,
     toggleborders, tableproperties, rowproperties, rowinsertabove,  
rowinsertunder, rowdelete, rowsplit,
     columninsertbefore, columninsertafter, columndelete, columnsplit,  
cellproperties, cellinsertbefore,
     cellinsertafter, celldelete, cellsplit, cellmerge
   )
   contentCSS = fileadmin/styles.css
   classesCharacter >
   classesParagraph >
   enableWordClean = 1
   removeTrailingBR = 1
   removeComments = 1
   proc {
     overruleMode = ts_css
     dontConvBRtoParagraph = 1
     allowTagsOutside = hr, address
     allowTags (
       a, abbr, acronym, address, blockquote, b, br, caption, cite, code,  
div, em,
       h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, img, li, link, ol, p, pre, q, sdfield,
       span, strong, sub, sup, table, tbody, td, th, tr, tt, ul
     )
     denyTags >
     keepPDIVattribs = xml:lang,class,align
     entryHTMLparser_db = 1
     entryHTMLparser_db {
       allowTags < RTE.default.proc.allowTags
       denyTags >
       htmlSpecialChars = 0
       tags {
         img.allowedAttribs >
         img.rmTagIfNoAttrib = 1
         span.fixAttrib.style.unset >
         span.fixAttrib.class.unset >
         p.fixAttrib.align.unset >
         div.fixAttrib.align.unset >
         hr.allowedAttribs = class
         b.allowedAttribs = xml:lang
         blockquote.allowedAttribs = xml:lang
         cite.allowedAttribs = xml:lang
         em.allowedAttribs = xml:lang
         i.allowedAttribs = xml:lang
         q.allowedAttribs = xml:lang
         strong.allowedAttribs = xml:lang
         sub.allowedAttribs = xml:lang
         sup.allowedAttribs = xml:lang
         tt.allowedAttribs = xml:lang
       }
       removeTags = center, font, o:p, sdfield, strike, u
       keepNonMatchedTags = protect
     }
     HTMLparser_db = 1
     HTMLparser_db {
       noAttrib = br
       xhtml_cleaning = 1
     }
     exitHTMLparser_db = 1
     exitHTMLparser_db {
       allowTags < RTE.default.proc.allowTags
       denyTags >
       tags.b.remap = strong
       tags.i.remap = em
       keepNonMatchedTags = 1
       htmlSpecialChars = 0
     }
   }
}
RTE.default.enableWordClean.HTMLparser <  
RTE.default.proc.entryHTMLparser_db
RTE.default.FE.proc < RTE.default.proc
RTE.config.tt_content.bodytext >
RTE.config.tt_content.bodytext.proc.overruleMode = ts_css
RTE.config.tt_content.bodytext.types.text.proc.overruleMode = ts_css
RTE.config.tt_content.bodytext.types.textpic.proc.overruleMode = ts_css

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I would really appreciate some help.

- cyprian