HTML 4.01 Trans. Compliant Affiliate Links

Are ANY affiliate links HTML 4.01 Trans. Compliant?

[ChrisKud5]

Hello,
I hope this is the correct forum for this question, if not, I imagine it will be moved to the correct area.

My question is how I can get affiliate links to become HTML 4.01 trans. compliant.

For example, I have the following looking affiliate link (domain name and ID has been changed to comply with TOS)

<IMG SRC="http://DOMAIN.com/bfast/serve?bfmid=37923149&siteid=1111111&bfpage=mb_banner1&bfxid=99507741" BORDER="0" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1" NOSAVE >
<A HREF="http://DOMAIN.com/bfast/click?bfmid=37923149&siteid=1111111&bfpage=mb_banner1&bfxid=99507741" TARGET="_top"><IMG SRC="http://DOMAIN.com/clients/6c/46860icmultibrand.gif" BORDER="0" WIDTH="468" HEIGHT="60" ALT=""></A>

When I parse a page with this ugly looking affiliate link through the W3 validator, I get a mile long page of errors.

Is it possible to change around the link, replace certain chars. with HTML 4.01 trans. chars and have the code be valid HTML 4.01? Where can I find any kind of instructions to make a smiliar affiliate link compliant?

Thanks

[Mr_Z]

can you post some of the validation errors?

[bofe]

Most of the time the problem you'll run into is with the ampersands in the URLs that the affiliates give you.

Converting them to &amp; will take your list of errors down to four (if everything else on the page is valid)

Getting rid of NOSAVE, BORDER="0", and TARGET="_top" will fix the rest of your validation woes.

[thehittmann]

seeing that your using the html 4.01 trans as your declaration means that this is the standard that you are aiming for, doesnt have to mean that your page is 100% compliant to this standard.

You can note the error for validation purposes and forget about it or you can replace all the symbols with ascii code
.....that is one ugly looking link though.