Umm yes, what happens if someone puts a few attributes in your parent node or the node you need and screws up your regex search as a result. Or a space? Regexs for XML will bite you on the bum when you least expect it. Parsing is slower, and can have its own issues, but is generally more predictable. 
# your regex would fail if
<parentNode id="1234"> # would fail because node now has attributes

<parentNode > # just one space is all it takes

# or this...
<nodeINeed><!-- regex this comment, sucka! -->12345</nodeINeed>

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If you spot any bugs in my solutions, it's because I've deliberately left them in as an exercise for the reader! :-)

In reply to Re: XML parsing vs regex by space_monk
in thread XML parsing vs regex by derekstucki

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