Re: span class="nocodebreak" corrupting HTML

[Karl Berry]

    Web browsers don't hyphenate words anyway. 

Yes they do, or can.  I think it's abominable, but no one asked me :).
In code, they take it upon themselves to consider breaking lines at
explicit hyphens.

So that's the whole reason the <span> is there, and I don't think it
should just go away.  There might be a runnable example as part of the
initial submission, or we can create one ... -k