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November 24, 2011 03:06 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/eYTNgFfLaHs/why-you-shouldnt-parse-html.html
Why you shouldn't parse HTML with regexp
On StackOverflow, Robert Harvey -- apparently a man who's been around the block a few times -- has some impassioned advice for naive developers who are contemplating parsing HTML using regular expressions: HTML is a language of sufficient complexity that it cannot be parsed by regular expressions. Even Jon Skeet cannot parse HTML using regular [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/eYTNgFfLaHs/why-you-shouldnt-parse-html.html
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