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Simon Willison’s Weblog

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.

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2 comments

  1. Haha yes. After having to deal with https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50093 7 I agree 110%.

    Jesse Ruderman - 16th November 2009 18:47 - #

  2. Shoot, who would have touhhgt that it was that easy?

    Bert - 12th November 2011 06:38 - #

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