From: Clifford Heath <cjh-nospam@...>
Date: 2004-02-12T08:21:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple parsing of sloppy HTML - LittleLexer

John Carter wrote:
> http://littlelexer.rubyforge.org/

Cute, but it's not a parser, it's a composite lexer.
A regular expression engine cannot *parse* context-free grammars (like
most programming languages), even if you can layer them like this.