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This was a great read, but the comments got even more interesting.

It's all pretty much over my head, so I couldn't figure out if StoneCypher was trolling or if he had a real point.



Seems to be trolling. I find that refusal to link to a claimed source in the face of requests to do so almost always corresponds to trolling. Also

  There's actually a mathematical proof out there that no regular expression engine will safely extract from all broken HTML
seems like it has to be false unless it's much more qualified.




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