Re: Regular Expression for XML Parsing

On tushar.saxena@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I have a set of XML files
I need to extract the DATA part of the xml structure
If I want to get both DATA1 and DATA2 I can use a simple regex like :

It's a bad idea in the first place. XML is not a regular language, why would
you use regular expressions to parse it?

Any help would be appreciated !

Use a tool that is designed to parse XML like e.g. any of the XML parser
modules on CPAN.

jue
.

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