How to write a regular expression for html parsing?

Question

I'm trying to write a regular expression for my html parser.

I want to match a html tag with given attribute (eg. <div> with class="tab news selected" ) that contains one or more <a href> tags. The regexp should match the entire tag (from <div> to </div>). I always seem to get "memory exhausted" errors - my program probably takes every tag it can find as a matching one.

I'm using boost regex libraries.

Answer 1

You should probably look at this question re. regexps and HTML. The gist is that using regular expressions to parse HTML is not by any means an ideal solution.