regex for href substitution

[Jp Calderone]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 10:44:44PM +0000, Robin Becker wrote:
> I'm sure this must have been done before, but has anyone got a regex for
> extracting/changing html href attributes. I've done this before with
> htmllib, but it's been suggested that we can do this with re.
> 
> The application involves doing a special purpose forwarding proxy, so
> perhaps someone has already done something similar.

  Wow.

  Regular expressions are the wrong solution for manipulating sgml. 
htmllib is the right solution.  I'd stick with what I had, if I were you.

  Jp

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