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On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 22:46 +0100, David Carlisle wrote: > On 02/07/2012 22:24, Dan Shelton wrote: > > The +? after the pattern makes sure the previous expression is not > > greedy. regex(5) should explain. So it won't swallow the whole > > document, it'll travel along the characters until it finds the first > > --> > > There is no ? after the + in the code you quoted. Which is a good reminder of why using regular expressions to parse XML tends to be a bad idea. A more traditional Unix shell-like approach might be to use a stand-alone XML parser like xp or xmllint that can produce line-oriented output; typically this is based on the old SGML "ESIS" idea, and has a single character at the start of each line to indicate an event type, such as "open element", "attribute", "text" or whatever. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/
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