Howdy!
Perhaps you've missed the ongoing saga as Tricky asked
numerous questions that have led to this thread. He has
been given ample reasons why his approach was fatally
flawed, but has insisted that he had to go forward anyway.
Kind of like the Light Brigade...
If you were not aware of the history ex-thread, you
certainly can be forgiven for your reaction.
However, note several things. I only *asked* if he was as
dense as it appeared. Subtle, but (in my opinion)
important. On my use of "stubborn" and "stupid", I tried
to avoid absolute assertions about the character of Tricky, giving him some wiggle room to save face.
On the substance of your note: the full range of HTML
markup is sufficiently complex in the right ways as to make
parsing it by regular expressions impossible. A full-blown
parser is required. I'm not able to explain it in gory
details, but I recommend looking over Tricky's past posts
to see how this whole meta-thread has developed.
yours,
Michael |