Summoning a demon in Stack overflow

[text] 34 Answers Sorted by Highest score default . B A 4409 v v o Next Locked. There are disputes about this answers content being resolved at this time. It is not currently You cant parse XIHTML 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 50 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 itis 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 s 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 usall to inhuman ol for the One whose Name cannot be expressed in the Basic Multiingual Plane he comes. HTMLplusregexp willliquify 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 allliving 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 etermity of dread torture and security holes using regex as a tool to process HTML establishes a breach between this worid and the dread realm of orrupt entites ike SGML entities but more corrupt mere glimpse of the world of regex parsers for HTML will ins tantly transport a programmers consciousness into a world of ceaseless screaming he comesthe pestientsiithy regexinfection will devour your HTML parser application and existence for all time like Visual Bgsic only worse he comes he comes do ot fight he comgs his unhaly radiaric estroging allenlightenment. HTML tags leaking fepm your eyes like liquid pain. the song of regular ill extinguish the voices of mortal man from the Jcanseeit can you see it s beautiful the inal. snuf fing of th lis of Man ALL IS 1SLOST the pony he cories he Gomesfcomes the ichar permeates all MY FACE MY o NO noqoommpmeang e nndilulime Have you tried using an XML parser instead