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+// Represents all functions for process the raw HTML and 
+// extracting information from it, transforming it, etc.
+// All fns operate on strings.
+
+import std.algorithm : findSplitAfter, find;
+
+
+// Given the haystack (the full HTML) search for the RSS comment
+// representing that attribute.
+string find_rss_comment(string attr, string haystack)
+in (haystack !is null)
+{
+	immutable string needle = "<!-- rss-" ~ attr ~ ":"; 
+	string found  = haystack.find(needle);
+
+	if (found is null)
+		return null;
+
+	// As otherwise comment begin will be in `found`.
+	found = found[needle.length .. $];
+
+	// And get before the closing comment.
+	string result = found.findSplitAfter("-->")[0];
+	return result;
+}
+
+string find_html_title(string htmltext)
+{
+	// TODO: implement.
+	immutable string init_tag = "<title>";
+	string found = htmltext.find(init_tag);
+	if (found is null)
+		return null;
+
+	found = found[init_tag.length .. $];
+	string result = found.findSplitAfter("</title>")[0];
+	return result;
+}