Why you shouldn't parse HTML with regexp

[Mark Wieder]

All-

"The <center> cannot hold it is too late."

http://boingboing.net/2011/11/24/why-you-shouldnt-parse-html.html

...and follow the link to

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454

...the comments are hilarious

"Great, we're now debating the possibility of chuck norris parsing
HTML with regular expressions .. and paris hilton writing an operating
system."

"Pierre de Fermat also figured out how to do it, but the margin he was
writing in wasn't big enough for the code."

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net