HTML spans with links

[J. Landman Gay]

If I set the htmlText of a field to HTML that contains a span, and if that span also contains 
an anchor or href link, LC separates the span into multiple ones.

For example, a field's htmlText set to this:

<p> <span metadata="metadata1">This is some text that contains the metadata.<a 
href="#fn">linkOne</a> And here is some more text. <a href="#en"><i>linkTwo</i></a></span></p>

becomes this when retrieved:

<p> <span metadata="metadata1">This is some text that contains the metadata.<a 
href="#fn">linkOne</a></span><span metadata="metadata1"> And here is some more text. <a 
href="#en"><i>linkTwo</i></a></span></p>

How come it does that? Do links interfere with spans?

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