Thinking of using regexes for (general) HTML parsing? Read this.

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Granted, this answer doesn't give useful information, but it really drives home the point.

Can we paraphrase Hofstadter and say that for each HTML parser there's a page that it cannot parse?

I prefer to think that if an HTML parser can't parse an HTML page, then I either don't have an HTML parser or I don't have an HTML page. ;D