From: Sean Russell <ser@...>
Date: 2002-03-25T02:37:47+09:00
Subject: Re: extracting multi-line <a> tags?

Tobias Reif wrote:

>> attributes in ' are AFAIK forbidden. They've to be
>> in ". 
> 
> I would think it's the same as in XML:
> value='foo"bar'
> or
> value="foo'bar"

Yah, HTML is a dialect of SGML, and you can use either quotes or 
apostrophes.

Also, please keep in mind that you have to be careful about parsing XML and 
HTML using REs.  Tobi knows this, but a lot of people are bitten by the 
fact that regular expressions can't count tags, so the following fragment 
will screw up your processing:

<p>I'm in a paragraph <p> Whoa... another paragraph </p> blah </p>      

If you're in control of the source and you know that you'll never embed tags 
of the same name, you should be OK.

--- SER