It's not total bullshit. Did you get to the end of the article before commenting on it? I think Jeff hit the nail on the head; sure regex is generally not very

It's not total bullshit. Did you get to the end of the article before commenting on it? I think Jeff hit the nail on the head; sure regex is generally not very good a parsing HTML, but in certain situations it is the right tool for the job. You seem to have considered your options and chosen the right tool. The point of the article is that often you don't need to teach someone which tool they should be using, but how to recognise that there might be better solutions to the problem they're solving and how to go about finding that solution.