Converting html 3.2 to xhtml strict

Is it possible to convert from standard HTML 3.2 to xhtml
1.0 strict? I've tried every tidy configuration I can think
of. It spits out the xhtml strict 1.0 doctype header, makes
a bunch of changes like  , but not one single page out of
2,000 will validate with w3 validator. Each page has 100 or
more reported errors. Example errors:

Line 38, Column 17: there is no attribute
"background".


Line 39, Column 24: document type does not allow element
"a" here;


Line 43, Column 16: there is no attribute
"width".


Maybe I'm hoping for a miracle and this conversion just
isn't going to be possible. Obviously there are things in
the HTML like the background body image that wouldn't be
possible to convert so tidy leaves it alone. But maybe there
is a way to convert and then give a list of things which 
need to be changed in order to validate or ?

I should note that I have no problem converting from HTML
3.2 to XHTML Transitional. But I'm not able to go from XHTML
Transitional to strict with anything.

Hope this isn't a stupid question,
John
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tidy cannot "convert" to strict mode. It can do
some amount of clean up but
there are some transitional code that will not be
converted.
Regards,

On 09/03/2008, J and T <j_and_thotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Is it possible to convert from standard HTML 3.2 to
xhtml 1.0 strict? I've tried every tidy configuration I can
think of. It spits out the xhtml strict 1.0 doctype header,
makes a bunch of changes like  , but not one single page out
of 2,000 will validate with w3 validator. Each page has 100
or more reported errors. Example errors:
>
> Line 38, Column 17: there is no attribute
"background".
>
>
> Line 39, Column 24: document type does not allow
element "a" here;
>
>
> Line 43, Column 16: there is no attribute
"width".
>
>
> Maybe I'm hoping for a miracle and this conversion just
isn't going to be possible. Obviously there are things in
the HTML like the background body image that wouldn't be
possible to convert so tidy leaves it alone. But maybe there
is a way to convert and then give a list of things which 
need to be changed in order to validate or ?
>
> I should note that I have no problem converting from
HTML 3.2 to XHTML Transitional. But I'm not able to go from
XHTML Transitional to strict with anything.
>
> Hope this isn't a stupid question,
> John
>
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> Climb to the top of the charts! Play the word scramble
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