The above exchange over how to parse html seems to be a running controversy in the monastery.

At Being a heretic and going against the party line, browseruk criticizes "cargo cult" reliance on html::tokeparser, html::treebuilder, and other html::* modules when regexes would do fine, and also because the html::s are hard to learn and don't deserve the praise the community gives them:

This was in reply to Parsing HTML tags with regex, which is a good starting thread for various methods of parsing html, including browseruk's simple regex solution, which led to all the controversy after he got downvoted.