Re: Problems tidying content as XHTML strict

Thursday, August 14, 2003, 2:48:50 PM, Bjoern wrote:

> * Tim Fountain wrote:

>>>> The output needs to be XHTML strict, however despite the doctype
>>>> in the content and me setting the doctype in the tidy
>>>> configuration file, the resulting output seems to be XHTML
>>>> transitional.
>>
>>> Your document contains elements that do not conform to Strict, and
>>> Tidy is preserving them and adjusting the Doctype to suit.
>>
>>> The only other option would be to discard the non-Strict tags and
>>> attributes (since there's no general way to transform them into
>>> Strict ones).
>>
>> Discarding them would be fine, is there any way I can get Tidy to
>> do this?

> --drop-proprietary-attributes yes as a start.

Thanks, that drops the non-standard attributes which will help for
some of the other input files.  However in this sample file the
attributes _are_ standard (color, face etc.), just not for this
particular HTML version.

Is there no way to get Tidy to drop these?

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