Tenacious Word tag won't die

"David Nicholls" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.html-tidy.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I've been trying to use Tidy to clean up Word 2000/2003 "HTML".

I am unable to find a way to remove the gratuitous <o:p> , </o:p> tags.

I've tried using Tidy (several builds) from within Homesite 5.5, from within
Topstyle 3,  and using HTMLTrim and TidyUI.

There does not appear to be a way to tell Tidy to kill non-W3C tags.  It
reports tham as illegal and then leaves them in place.  A "kill non-W3C tags"
option would be most welcome.

There are two problems: simple empty <o:p></o:p> occurrences and bracketed
nbsps and blank spaces: <o:p>&nbsp;</o:p> or <o:p> </o:p>

I have not tried the command line, because, working in a Windows environement,
command line  operations are slow and error prone, and it appears likely, in
the organisation where I'm working, that command line access will be closed
off by a (paranoid) security policy soon.

Does anyone have any guidance on how to kill these pestiferous tags?

A test Word 2000 "HTML" file that shows the problem is located at
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/download.php?group_id=27659&atid=390963&file_id=108929&aid=1067112

See also bug 1067112.

DN
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David C Nicholls
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