Thinking of using regexes for (general) HTML parsing? Read this. (stackoverflow.com) 9 points by Jun8 14y ago ↗ HN
[–] Jun8 14y ago ↗ Granted, this answer doesn't give useful information, but it really drives home the point.Can we paraphrase Hofstadter and say that for each HTML parser there's a page that it cannot parse? [–] mikedougherty 14y ago ↗ I prefer to think that if an HTML parser can't parse an HTML page, then I either don't have an HTML parser or I don't have an HTML page. ;D
[–] mikedougherty 14y ago ↗ I prefer to think that if an HTML parser can't parse an HTML page, then I either don't have an HTML parser or I don't have an HTML page. ;D
[–] [dead] cleverjake 14y ago ↗ A bit more informative post - http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/11/parsing-html-the-ct...
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