Regular expression for nested tags (innermost to make it easier)

Question

I researched this quite a bit, but couldn't find a working example how to match nested html tags with attributes. I know it is possible to match balanced/nested innermost tags without attributes (for example a regex for and would be #<div\b[^>]*>(?:(?> [^<]+ ) |<(?!div\b[^>]*>))*?</div>#x).

However, I would like to see a regex pattern that finds an html tag pair with attributes.

Example: It basically should match

<div class="aaa"> **<div class="aaa">** <div> <div> </div> **</div>** </div>

and not

<div class="aaa"> **<div class="aaa">** <div> <div> **</div>** </div> </div>

Anybody has some ideas?

For testing purposes we could use: http://www.lumadis.be/regex/test_regex.php

---

PS. Steven mentioned a solution in his blog (actually in a comment), but it doesn't work

http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/match-innermost-html-element

$regex = '/<div\b[^>]+?\bid\s*=\s*"MyID"[^>]*>(?:((?:[^<]++|<(?!\/?div\b[^>]*>))+)|(<div\b[^>]*>(?>(?1)|(?2))*<\/div>))?<\/div>/i';

Answer 1

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454

And indeed, it is absolutely impossible. HTML has something unique, something magical, which is immune to RegEx.