Help with missing '>' error

Hello, 
I'm trying to use HTML Tidy on a webpage and the html code on which I'm
trying to use Tidy looks something like this: 

<A 
	<a href="whatever">
</A>
The 'A' tag is missing  '>' and tidy flags this as an error. This is the
error output that I get from Tidy: 
Tidy (vers 4th August 2000) Parsing "InputStream"
line 190 column 39 - Error: <a> missing '>' for end of tag line 197 column
35
Is there any way to make Tidy fix the missing '>' or generate output inspite
of the missing '>' ? 
The original looks good in a browser because our browser is pretty forgiving
in terms of missing '>' and I have no control over the original html page.
I would really appreciate any help in this regard.
Thanks,
--Aditya