Conclude XML files with same data using Regex

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i have a little problem with useing regular expressions in ANT. I have two XML files which have a strcture like that:

XML file 1:

<testtag id="2234">
<blabla>data</blabla>
    </testtag>

XML file 2:

<testtag id="2234">
    <blabla>data2</blabla>
        </testtag>

Now i need an regular expression for ANT which selects all data between the testtags which have the same id and put them together in one final XML file. I tried a few differnt regular expression but nothing worked..

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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Do not use regular expressions to parse XML.

If you want to know why, see for example:

Can you provide some examples of why it is hard to parse XML and HTML with a regex?

Why it's not possible to use regex to parse HTML/XML: a formal explanation in layman's terms

and of course the classic:

RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags

edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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answered Jan 17 '14 at 12:56

Michael Kay

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 17 '14 at 13:14

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The only way I can imagine you'd do it, is with this:

<testtag id="2234"[^>]*>(.*?)<\/testtag>

answered Jan 17 '14 at 13:14

Vasili Syrakis

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Conclude XML files with same data using Regex

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