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Clarify expected behavior for empty/whitespace-only span names #5215

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The Tracer API does not precisely define what should happen during span creation if the supplied span name argument is an empty/whitespace-only string. The behavior appears to be inconsistent between Ruby and Java at the very least.

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This was originally raised in the Kotlin SDK in this PR: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-kotlin#677

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