you could also do the opposite... the machine version can parse the HTML. despite the myths to the contrary this is extremely easy since the various bits of the

you could also do the opposite... the machine version can parse the HTML. despite the myths to the contrary this is extremely easy since the various bits of the web stack which are poorly implemented don't really cause an issue if you just want to extract text content, especially if you control the form of it (e.g. you could use class or id to identify data). it is after all a markup language and this is exactly what it is meant for (the web browser does this...)