You statement that you "do not want to use XML parsing" reminds me of the observation that "the lawyer representing himself has a fool for a client."

If you reject the best advice here, you're representing yourself.

There's good reason to avoid using regexen for your task: By and large, the mature XML modules are well tested, reliable, and consistent. They reflect the developer's (or developers') extensive knowledge of XML and the potential "edge-case gotcha's" ...and the community's.

Your regex isn't going to have those advantages.

Afterthought: You'll want to use &lt; and &gt; when you need less-than and greater-than symbols in narrative text... and foreswear the use of </br> (it isn't among the PM-approved markup tags.) Markup in the Monastery may help.

In reply to Re: How to find the value of the first and last occurence of an XML node? by ww
in thread How to find the value of the first and last occurence of an XML node? by biswanath_c

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