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

You may also consider using the html parser that is built into python (Documentation for Python 2 and Python 3)

This will help you home in on the specific area of the HTML Document you would like to work on - and use regular expressions on it.