You can't parse XML with regex. Let's do it anyways

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You can't parse XML with regex. Let's do it anyways. this scene came to me in a dream Haruhi says..."They didn't even get to the blogpost stuff1 and they're already making a contradictory statement. #1Content is a word of the enemy. Companies will say "content" instead of calling it artworks, writings, pieces, and such, as if all media is something interchangeable meant to fill a box. Referring to "art" as "content" nowadays is often pejorative. If I ever make a "CDN" (Content Delivery Network), I will call it an SDN instead. Sounds much comfier.Has to be some sort of record! Fortunately, this contradiction is far from being the last in this post. " Attempting to parse HTML with regular expressions is an infamous pitfall, and a great example of using the wrong tool for the job. It's generally accepted to be a bad idea, for a multitude of reasons. Picture 1 - he keeps on going for like 3 more screens (Stack Overflow link) There's this famous Stack Overflow answer about why you should never, ever do it. In fact, this answer got so popular that it was used like a copypasta in some circles. Every time I stumbled upon it, I would think how there's a lot of truth in it - but at the same time, I couldn't agree in full... But... can't you, really? Picture 2 - did you know that XML has a logo? I'm not joking, I only learnt today too While I assume that all readers of this weblog have at least a vague understanding of XML, it's worth to recap for the sake of later arguments. Quoting the Wikipedia article on XML: Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing data. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. I'd like to focus on three parts: It's a markup language: unlike JSON or TOML3, #3This sentence originally mentioned YAML. This post isn't about YAML, and yet I got a lot of complaints for implying that YAML could be considered simple. Thi...