Why Does Flash Not Validate?

[campo]

Okay, with the help of Degs I solved my flash problem of yesterday. But I have a secondary question:

I have become a bit of a 'validation freak' - even with a few hundred pages on my site about 95% are now validated (mostly xhtml trans., but some pages under html 4.00 or 4.01) but I have noticed that when I try to validate any page with flash, the page will not validate and it is various things within the flash coding which are the problem.
Now I realise that 100% validation for a huge site is never going to be possible, but I am shocked that even xhtml rejects flash codings.
This is where I go for validation:
http://validator.w3.org/
Admittedly the system is not perfect (and they do not claim it) but this system always rejects flash.
I would love to know if anybody has any ideas.

campo.

[degsy]

Lots of info on this issue
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...+xhtml&spell=1

[campo]

Thanks degs. Two evenings running I am indebted to you. For anybody else interested, the old unwieldy code for flash can now be jettisoned and here is the xhtml standard:

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
data="welcomecurl.swf" width="468" height="60"><param
name="movie" value="welcomecurl.swf" />
<img src="banner.gif" width="468" height="60"
alt="banner" /></object>

Thanks again!