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You can't parse [X]HTML with regex. Because HTML can't be parsed by regex. Regex is not a tool that
can be used to correctly parse HTML. As I have answered in HTML-and-regex questions here so many
times before, the use of regex will not allow you to consume HTML. Regular expressions are a tool that is
insufficiently sophisticated to understand the constructs employed by HTML. HTML is not a regular
language and hence cannot be parsed by regular expressions. Regex queries are not equipped to break
down HTML into its meaningful parts. so many times but it is not getting to me. Even enhanced irregular
regular expressions as used by Perl are not up to the task of parsing HTML. You will never make me
crack. HTML is a language of sufficient complexity that it cannot be parsed by regular expressions. Even
Jon Skeet cannot parse HTML using regular expressions. Every time you attempt to parse HTML with
regular expressions, the unholy child weeps the blood of virgins, and Russian hackers pwn your webapp.
Parsing HTML with regex summons tainted souls into the realm of the living. HTML and regex go together
like love, marriage, and ritual infanticide. The <center> cannot hold it is too late. The force of regex and
HTML together in the same conceptual space will destroy your mind like so much watery putty. If you
parse HTML with regex you are giving in to Them and their blasphemous ways which doom us all to
inhuman toil for the One whose Name cannot be expressed in the Basic Multilingual Plane, he comes.
HTML-plus-regexp will liquify the nerves of the sentient whilst you observe, your psyche withering in the
onslaught of horror. Regex-based HTML parsers are the cancer that is killing StackOverflow it is too late
it is too late we cannot be saved the trangession of a child ensures regex will consume all living tissue
(except for HTML which it cannot, as previously prophesied) dear lord help us how can anyone survive
this scourge using regex to parse HTML has doomed humanity to an eternity of dread torture and
security holes using regex as a tool to process HTML establishes a breach between this world and the
dread realm of čorrupt entities (like SGML entities, but more corrupt) a mere glimpse of the world of reg
ex parsers for HTML will instantly transport a programmer's consciousness into a world of ceaseless
screaming, he comes-the pestilent slithy regex-infection will devour your HTML parser, application and
existence for all time like Vişual Basic only worse he comes he comes do not fight he comes, his uņholy
radiance destroping all enlightenment, HTML tags leaking frọm your eyesiike liquid pain, the song of
regular expression parsing-will extinguish the voices of mortal man from the sphere I can see it can you
see t it is beautiful the f inal snuf fing of the lies of Man ALL ĮS LOSTALL IS LOST the pony he
comes he comes hejcemes the ichor permeates al MY FACEFACEh god no NO NOOoo Ne
stop the an ges aře not reâj ZALGO IS TON THË PONY, HECOMES
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Have you tried using an XML parser instead?
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