Can someone explain how to match the nested element of same tag?.
I have faced problem, in the inner level data matching thru greedy matching
It results failure.
For example below I need to match the "<ta>...</ta>" tags in the following order
that is in the <root> tag the inner most <ta> tag elements should be processed first and
then the outer <ta> should match next then....

outputs:

<ta>text</ta><br>
<ta>the sample <ta>text</ta> explanation</ta><br>
<ta>this is <ta>the sample <ta>text</ta> explanation</ta> needded</ta>
+<br>
<p>for the<br>
<p>inputs:<br>
"<root><ta>this is <ta>the sample <ta>text</ta> explanation</ta> needd
+ed</ta></root>"

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Thanks in advance and suggestions are more welcome.

20050206: Unconsidered by Corion, was considered by jbrugger: change the tite to something like: match the contents of nested alike (same) tags; Keep/Edit/Delete: 9/15/0

In reply to How to avoid the greedy matching failures?. by perlsen

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