In article <12783654.1174.1331073814011.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums at yner4>, John Salerno <johnjsal at gmail.com> wrote: > I sort of have to work with what the website gives me (as you'll see below), > but today I encountered an exception to my RE. Let me just give all the > specific information first. The point of my script is to go to the specified > URL and extract song information from it. Rule #1: Don't try to parse XML, HTML, or any other kind of ML with regular expressions. Rule #2: Use a dedicated ML parser. I like lxml (http://lxml.de/). There's other possibilities. Rule #3: If in doubt, see rule #1.