Expando is essentially any random attribute. Allowing any random attribute to be acceptable is effectively like switching off attribute name validation. A better idea might be to add your attribute to the IE6 validation schema which is an XML schema located in Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Packages\Schemas\HTML - look for ie6_0.xsd.
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