/xml-regex Parsing XML with Regular Expressions

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Open flapenguin opened 4 years ago

flapenguin commented 4 years ago

https://flapenguin.me/xml-regex

Kristine1975 commented 3 years ago

Hello from two years later! I don't think the following is quite correct: (?<attrvalue>[^\s"'>]+):

it doesn't allow for empty attribute values (+ instead of *)
it doesn't allow for spaces in attribute values
it doesn't allow for ' when the value's delimiter is " (if my reading of the XML spec is correct, " is the only allowed delimiter anyway)

flapenguin commented 2 years ago

This regex was not intended to be a complete xml parser at any means. You can potentially extend it to conform to the spec. But honestly I don't think it worth the trouble.