Some discussion, plus links, from an earlier HN posting about a related SO post (which argued, roughly, that parsing HTML with regexes opened the door to Hell):

Some discussion, plus links, from an earlier HN posting about a related SO post (which argued, roughly, that parsing HTML with regexes opened the door to Hell): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1487975 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1487975