diff --git a/src/lib/eZ/RichText/Resources/stylesheets/xhtml5/edit/docbook.xsl b/src/lib/eZ/RichText/Resources/stylesheets/xhtml5/edit/docbook.xsl
index a6613518..8634fbc4 100644
--- a/src/lib/eZ/RichText/Resources/stylesheets/xhtml5/edit/docbook.xsl
+++ b/src/lib/eZ/RichText/Resources/stylesheets/xhtml5/edit/docbook.xsl
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@
     </blockquote>
   </xsl:template>
 
-  <xsl:template match="ezxhtml5:em">
+  <xsl:template match="ezxhtml5:em | ezxhtml5:i">
     <emphasis>
       <xsl:if test="@class">
         <xsl:attribute name="ezxhtml:class">
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@
     </emphasis>
   </xsl:template>
 
-  <xsl:template match="ezxhtml5:strong">
+  <xsl:template match="ezxhtml5:strong | ezxhtml5:b">
     <emphasis>
       <xsl:attribute name="role">strong</xsl:attribute>
       <xsl:if test="@class">
@@ -747,4 +747,22 @@
     <xsl:value-of select="translate( substring-before( substring-after( concat( substring-after( $style, $property ), ';' ), ':' ), ';' ), ' ', '' )"/>
   </xsl:template>
 
+  <!-- Some fallbacks to handle translating inline formatting in span tags for copy&paste and import use cases -->
+  <xsl:template match="ezxhtml5:span[not(@data-ezelement) and contains(@style,'bold')]">
+    <emphasis>
+      <xsl:attribute name="role">strong</xsl:attribute>
+      <xsl:call-template name="breakline">
+        <xsl:with-param name="node" select="node()"/>
+      </xsl:call-template>
+    </emphasis>
+  </xsl:template>
+
+  <xsl:template match="ezxhtml5:span[not(@data-ezelement) and contains(@style,'italic')]">
+    <emphasis>
+      <xsl:call-template name="breakline">
+        <xsl:with-param name="node" select="node()"/>
+      </xsl:call-template>
+    </emphasis>
+  </xsl:template>
+
 </xsl:stylesheet>
diff --git a/tests/lib/eZ/RichText/Converter/Xslt/_fixtures/xhtml5/edit/lossy/003-inlinestyles.docbook.xml b/tests/lib/eZ/RichText/Converter/Xslt/_fixtures/xhtml5/edit/lossy/003-inlinestyles.docbook.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ec44371d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/lib/eZ/RichText/Converter/Xslt/_fixtures/xhtml5/edit/lossy/003-inlinestyles.docbook.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+         xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+         xmlns:ezxhtml="http://ez.no/xmlns/ezpublish/docbook/xhtml"
+         xmlns:ezcustom="http://ez.no/xmlns/ezpublish/docbook/custom"
+         version="5.0-variant ezpublish-1.0">
+    <para>Some <emphasis role="strong">strong</emphasis> content.</para>
+    <para>Some <emphasis role="strong">strong</emphasis> content.</para>
+    <para>Some <emphasis>em</emphasis> content.</para>
+    <para>Some <emphasis>em</emphasis> content.</para>
+</section>
diff --git a/tests/lib/eZ/RichText/Converter/Xslt/_fixtures/xhtml5/edit/lossy/003-inlinestyles.xhtml5.edit.xml b/tests/lib/eZ/RichText/Converter/Xslt/_fixtures/xhtml5/edit/lossy/003-inlinestyles.xhtml5.edit.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b6cd49fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/lib/eZ/RichText/Converter/Xslt/_fixtures/xhtml5/edit/lossy/003-inlinestyles.xhtml5.edit.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<section xmlns="http://ez.no/namespaces/ezpublish5/xhtml5/edit">
+  <p>Some <b>strong</b> content.</p>
+  <p>Some <span style="font-weight: bold">strong</span> content.</p>
+  <p>Some <i>em</i> content.</p>
+  <p>Some <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">em</span> content.</p>
+</section>