[David Carlisle]

>
> > Probably tidy is assuming that the input is XHTML. i.e. valid XML. I
>
> yes if any other application had been mentioned I'd have said the same,
> but the whole point of tidy is to read in _html_ and output cleaned up
> html or xhtml, so it should know html syntax (and does usually on the
> few times I've used it)
>

You can set Tidy to use html or xhtml input.  If you use a tool like
HTML-kit that uses Tidy, you can easily forget which setting you chose in
the Options.

Cheers,

Tom P


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