diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 0cbe1a6..fe9ed89 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
 * Redirect informational output to `stderr` when SVG is output to `stdout`. ([#67](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/67))
 * Allow elements to be found via `Document.getElementById()` in the minidom document returned by scourXmlFile(). ([#68](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/68))
 * Improve code to remove default attribute values and add a lot of new default values. ([#70](https://github.com/scour-project/scour/issues/70))
+* Fix: Only attempt to group elements that the content model allows to be children of a `<g>` when `--create-groups` is specified. (#98)
+
 
 ## Version 0.34 (2016-07-25)
 
diff --git a/scour/scour.py b/scour/scour.py
index 5452b7d..abde59b 100644
--- a/scour/scour.py
+++ b/scour/scour.py
@@ -1032,7 +1032,24 @@ def createGroupsForCommonAttributes(elem):
       while curChild >= 0:
          childNode = elem.childNodes.item(curChild)
 
-         if childNode.nodeType == 1 and childNode.getAttribute(curAttr) != '':
+         if childNode.nodeType == 1 and childNode.getAttribute(curAttr) != '' and \
+               childNode.nodeName in [
+                  # only attempt to group elements that the content model allows to be children of a <g>
+
+                  # SVG 1.1 (see https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/struct.html#GElement)
+                  'animate', 'animateColor', 'animateMotion', 'animateTransform', 'set', # animation elements
+                  'desc', 'metadata', 'title',                                           # descriptive elements
+                  'circle', 'ellipse', 'line', 'path', 'polygon', 'polyline', 'rect',    # shape elements 
+                  'defs', 'g', 'svg', 'symbol', 'use',                                   # structural elements
+                  'linearGradient', 'radialGradient',                                    # gradient elements
+                  'a', 'altGlyphDef', 'clipPath', 'color-profile', 'cursor', 'filter',
+                  'font', 'font-face', 'foreignObject', 'image', 'marker', 'mask',
+                  'pattern', 'script', 'style', 'switch', 'text', 'view',
+
+                  # SVG 1.2 (see https://www.w3.org/TR/SVGTiny12/elementTable.html)
+                  'animation', 'audio', 'discard', 'handler', 'listener',
+                  'prefetch', 'solidColor', 'textArea', 'video'
+               ]:
             # We're in a possible run! Track the value and run length.
             value = childNode.getAttribute(curAttr)
             runStart, runEnd = curChild, curChild
diff --git a/testscour.py b/testscour.py
index c31d86a..fa30bb6 100755
--- a/testscour.py
+++ b/testscour.py
@@ -1222,6 +1222,13 @@ class GroupNoCreation(unittest.TestCase):
 		self.assertEqual(doc.getElementsByTagName('g').length, 0,
 			'Created a <g> for a run of elements having dissimilar attributes')
 
+class GroupNoCreationForTspan(unittest.TestCase):
+	def runTest(self):
+		doc = scour.scourXmlFile('unittests/group-no-creation-tspan.svg',
+			scour.parse_args(['--create-groups']))
+		self.assertEqual(doc.getElementsByTagName('g').length, 0,
+			'Created a <g> for a run of <tspan>s that are not allowed as children according to content model')
+
 class DoNotCommonizeAttributesOnReferencedElements(unittest.TestCase):
 	def runTest(self):
 		doc = scour.scourXmlFile('unittests/commonized-referenced-elements.svg')
diff --git a/unittests/group-no-creation-tspan.svg b/unittests/group-no-creation-tspan.svg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..65f3803
--- /dev/null
+++ b/unittests/group-no-creation-tspan.svg
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
+<svg height="100" width="100" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" >
+ <text>
+  <tspan x="10" y="30" style="font-family:sans-serif">text1</tspan>
+  <tspan x="10" y="50" style="font-family:sans-serif">text2</tspan>
+  <tspan x="10" y="70" style="font-family:sans-serif">text3</tspan>
+ </text>
+</svg>