Regular Expressions vs XPath when parsing HTML text

Question

I want to parse a HTML text and find special parts. For example a text in 3rd div of 1st row and 2nd column of a table. I

Answer 1

Here is the canonical Stackoverflow explanation for why you should not parse HTML with regex:

RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags

In general, you cannot parse HTML with regex because regex is not made to parse HTML. Just use XPath.