Yeah, this is pretty much what seems to be going on. I don't think anyone has ever said that regexs can't be used in the parsing of html, just that they can't

Yeah, this is pretty much what seems to be going on. I don't think anyone has ever said that regexs can't be used in the parsing of html, just that they can't be used for the parsing of html. It's like someone saying "You can't use bricks to keep warm!" and countering that by saying "Observe! I have built a house using, among other things, bricks, and it shelters me from the weather and keeps me warm!" Deliberately missing the point in order to show off your housebuilding skills. Still, it was an informative and well written article. Article, rather than an answer to a question. Why do people write these thousands of words on stack overflow, when they could publish them on their blogs. Are SO points from confused corporate employees really worth more than the adulation of the blogosphere? Actually, who cares. I almost lost the will to live just writing that sentence...