<% symbols causing issues with Tidy

From: Aravind <aravind@longboys.net> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 15:10:11 -0700 To: html-tidy@w3.org Message-ID: <web-918547@longboys.net> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.1 : Tuesday, 6 January 2015 21:38:52 UTC

Hi,
  I am using JTidy to clean up HTML files.I observed that 
when html content contains '<%' symbols, tidy truncates 
the content at that point.For eg:, the following content, 
when passed through Tidy,

  #
  #The following formula is used to calculate the % 
utilization:
  #<% util>*<speed(bit/sec)>*<interval(sec)>/(100*8)
  #

gets truncated/transformed to 

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
##The following formula is used to calculate the % 
utilization: #
</body>
</html>

Can any one tell me why this is happening or how I can fix 
this.

Thanks
Aravind.