Finding a vaule in XML using regex

Question

I have a below xml

<ns1:Header>
<ns4:Name>Mohan</ns4:Name>
<ns4:Age>10</ns4:Age>
<ns4:Dept>CSE</ns4:Dept>
</ns1:Header>

I need to write a regex to find the Name from Mohan tag. Here the namespace(ns4) may change dynamically .Please help to write a generic regex that should work in all the namespace

If there is only a regex it looks like: <[\w]{3}:Name>(\w+)[\w]{3}:Name> — Xavier S., Apr 05 '13 at 12:44
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags?rq=1 — Gilles Quénot, Apr 05 '13 at 12:45

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 05 '13 at 12:47

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Try this:

<ns\d+:Name>(.+)<

But do you really have to use RegEx? There are better ways, like System.Xml.XmlDocument class in .NET

answered Apr 05 '13 at 12:47

AdamL

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Then I would even recommend the `XPathNavigator` – Myrtle Apr 05 '13 at 12:50

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 05 '13 at 12:48

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binogure's solution seems right, I'd only make the namespace more general:

/<(\w+:Name)>(\w+)<\/\1>/

Or, if the namespace if optional:

/<((?:\w+)?Name)>(\w+)(\/\1>/

The name would be in the second capturing group.

answered Apr 05 '13 at 12:48

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Finding a vaule in XML using regex

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