take a peek at http://howtonode.org/ - some stuff is out of date as node is a rapidly evolving platform, but most of it holds true.
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'you can't build a web framework without threads, in spite of Python having multiple single threaded systems. When challenged, he said, "that's still a thread."'
Have you tried using Aria's html5 parser? I hear it works better with malformed markup.