Regular expression to match closing HTML tags

Question

I\'m working on a small Python script to clean up HTML documents. It works by accepting a list of tags to KEEP and then parsing through the HTML code trashing tags that are

Answer 1

1. Read:

   • RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags
   • Can you provide some examples of why it is hard to parse XML and HTML with a regex?

2. Repent.

3. Use a real HTML parser, like BeautifulSoup.