In this particular instance, for reasons of a self-imposed contraint to favour ease of deployment and use by the target audience, I have no parser. Using xpath

In this particular instance, for reasons of a self-imposed contraint to favour ease of deployment and use by the target audience, I have no parser. Using xpath (or just about anything else) would be smashing. The likelihood of the markup changing to the point where the code breaks is unlikely, the target pages are open source mirrors exposed over HTTP. It even winds up being nicer code than the FTP handler.