Problem Statement:

Given a String:: '<vertical name="abc"><description> Replicant consists of Icon, Title1, Title2, Description, MOre Title, and More Hyperlink (minimum=0, maximum=10)</description><item min-allowed="1" max-allowed="20">'

Goals:

a) Check if the string contains "item" node.

if exits:

b) Pick the immediate preceding elements viz "description" and "item" (case insensitive) Condition : The "description" element may or may not exist.

b-1)move the "<description>.*</description>" content to a variable.

b-2)capture the attributes of the "item" element in a variable.

I have tried using something like this

"<item .(*)?><description>(.*)?</description><replicant (.*)?>"

as search pattern but didnt succeed .

please advice.

Thanks in advance

Ananda

In reply to some more Regex help reqd by Ananda

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