Help with regular expressions

[Sybren Stuvel]

dmbkiwi enlightened us with:
> A couple of other people have contributed code to this project,
> particularly relating to the parsing of the websites.
> Unfortunately, it is not parsing one particular part of the website
> properly.  This is because it is expecting the data to be in a
> certain form, and occasionally it is in a different form.
> Unfortunately this causes the entire script to fail to run.

You seem to expect old HTML. Why not use XHTML only ('tidy' can
convert between them) and use a regular XML parser? Much, much, much
easier! And you won't have to be afraid of messing up your regular
expressions ;-)

Sybren
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