Hi Steve,

Can you provide a URL and some additional information?

I'm not sure what your definition is on 'non standard'.
If the character entity codes are those in the http://wc3.org
HTML v4 spec then that would be in compliance with the
standards.  If those are the entities then an HTML webpage
validator should not have a problem with them.

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Hi I wonder if anyone knows the answer to this...

If I use a databse to allow users to update their content
and they copy and paste some text from a word document the
resulting webpage when generated using ASP keeps all
words' non-standard (SGML) character entities.

However, I need to validate my webpages and if words non-
standard code is retained this won't be possible.

How do other people get around this problem? I have tried
saving word files as .htm, .txt. .rtf and even htm
(filtered) and it still keeps those characters in! I know
I can go online and 'clean' a html file created from word
but is there an easier way?>>

I want to allow users to maintain content easily but not
at the expense of generating non-standard code. I know I
can go online and 'clean' a html file created from word
but is there an easier way?

Thanks
Steven>>
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Hope that helps,

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