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xidel looks potentially pretty useful for helping extract data from HTML. I've never used it, but added it to my "list". I think part of the point is that xidel reads the HTML file into data structures, and "knows" about DOM, so it is a lot more powerful at manipulating HTML. A specialized tool like xidel can greatly outperform a general-purpose tool, again for what it does. But if you want xidel to do something "different", of course it cannot. For example, I don't think it would help with the task posed by the OP.
Daniel