RegEx XML Tags

[gishi]

Hi Everyone,

Do you know how i can get the values using Regular Expression between the opening and closing tags of xml files? I need to process xml files using python and i just need to get the values between tags.
For example:

<name value>my name is </name value>

i just need to get the value my name is using regular expression.
can someone help me with this?

thanks!

[cghtkh]

import re

target = '<name value>my name is</name value>'
mobj = re.search('<.*>(.*)</.*>', target)
print mobj.groups()[0]

[snippsat]

When it comes to parseing xml/html regular expression is not the right tool.
Use a parser python has several in standar libary or very good 3 party parser like beautifulsoup and lxml.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags

[gishi]

hi cghtkh!

thanks for your answer!

import re

target = '<name value>my name is</name value>'
mobj = re.search('<.*>(.*)</.*>', target)
print mobj.groups()[0]

[Gribouillis]

Quote from stack overflow:

"asking regexes to parse arbitrary HTML is like asking Paris Hilton to write an operating system"

so it may not be the right tool... (Not meaning that I could write an OS either).