I've been frustrated for a while that Microsoft does not have an HTML parser. Sure, there is IE and you can use it to grab HTML and fart around in the object model. And maybe that works. I probably should look at that more. But really, that seems like a bunch of work when all I want to do is fart around with some HTML. So I did way more work and decided to build my own HTML parser. As it turns out, HTML is a bastard. There are a ridiculous number of idiosyncracies that really capture the organic, seat-of-the-pants development that was going on in the early days of the web. I didn't really realize that XML took the basic syntax of HTML but then added a whole bunch of clarity as to what is allowed (and what is st00pid). For the first time in my life I find myself thinking about how sweet XML is.
