docbook: Thread: tidy question, off topic?

tell me if this is too far off topic.

when using the tidy program, it tends to insert lots of 
white space around the sgml tags.  that's normally a 
good thing.  except when there is punctuation immediately 
after a tag.  i don't want any white space before a period, 
comma or semi-colon that immediately follows a tag.  

is there a way to prevent tidy from doing this?  is there a 
way to fix the problem after tidy has done its work?

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