Never go full Regex!!! stackoverflow mods gave up on this

[text] 4411 v B Locked. There are disputes about this answers content being resolved at this time. It is not currently accepting new interactions. You cant parse XHTML with regex. Because HTML cant be parsed by regex. Regex is not a tool that can be used to correctly parse HTML. As have answered in HTMLandregex questions here so many times before the use of regex will not allow you to consume HTML. Regular expressions are a tool that is insufficiently sophisticated to understand the constructs employed by HTML. HTML is not a regular language and hence cannot be parsed by regular expressions. Regex queries are not equipped to break down HTML into its meaningful parts. so many times but it is not getting to me. Even enhanced irregular regular expressions as used by Perl are not up to the task of parsing HTML. You will never make me crack. HTML is a language of sufficient complexity that it cannot be parsed by regular expressions. Even Jon Skeet cannot parse HTML using regular expressions. Every time you attempt to parse HTML with regular expressions the unholy child weeps the blood of virgins and Russian hackers pwn your webapp. Parsing HTML with regex summons tainted souls into the realm of the living. HTML and regex go together like love marriage and ritual infanticide. The center cannot hold it is too late. The force of regex and HTML together in the same conceptual space will destroy your mind like so much watery putty. If you parse HTML with regex you are giving in to Them and their blasphemous ways which doom us all to inhuman toil for the One whose Name cannot be expressed in the Basic Multilingual Plane he comes. HTMLplusregexp will liquify the nerves of the sentient whilst you observe your psyche withering in the onslaught of horror. Regxbased HTML parsers are the cancer that is killing StackOverflow it is too late it is too late we cannot be saved the transgression of a child ensures regex will consume all living tissue except for HTML which it cannot as previously prophesied dear lord help us how can anyone survive this scourge using regex to parse HTML has doomed humanity to an eternity of dread torture and security holes using regex as a tool to process HTML establishes a breach between this world and the dread realm of 8rrupt entities like SGML entities but more corrupt a mere glimpse of the world of regex parsers for HTML will instantly transport a programmers consciousness into a world of ceaseless screaming he comesthepestilent slithy regexinfection will devour your HTML parser application and existence for all time like Visual Basic only worse he comes he comes do not fight he comes his unholy radianc destroying all enlightenment HTML tags lakirig from your eyes like liquid pain the song of rgular expressienparsingwill extinguish the voices of mortal man from the sphere can see it can you segit is beautiful the f inal snuf fing of the lies of Man ALL IS LOST ALL 1S LOST the pony he comes he eomeshecomes the ichor permeates al MY FACE MY FACE h god no NO NOQOO NGO stop the andes gte not r3 ZALGO IS TQNy THEPONY BE i 1QOMES Have you tried using an XML parser instead Moderators Note This post is locked to prevent inappropriate edits to its content. The post looks exactly as it is supposed to look there are no problems with its content. Please do not flag it for our attention.