From: Simon Krahnke <overlord@...>
Date: 2009-03-26T08:31:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing xml

* Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@googlemail.com> (19:17) schrieb:

> Peter Zotov wrote:
>> But this will fail at "some-tag" embedded in other "some-tag" and if �
>> tag will have arguments. Of course, these variants can be predicted �
>> and added to regexp too
>
> I don't see what you could add to the regexp to handle nested tags. You can't 
> really handle nested structures with regular expressions.

I don't see how the regex above he wrote doesn't already do that.

If you modify it to /<some-tag.*?>(.*?)<\/some-tag>/ it will ignore
attributes, too. Put so simple it can of course problems when there are
other elements whose names start with "some-tag".

ttfn,                        simon .... l