Regex Identifier for closest elements

Question

Im trying to construct a Regex Identifier for the following...

<w:p>
    Some Other XML
        <w:p someatribute="something">
        HERE
        </w:p>
    Some Other XML
</w:p>

The Identifier needs to select just the following part...

        <w:p someatribute="something">
        HERE
        </w:p>

And leave everything else in palce.

My current attempt... <w:p(.*?)Test(.*?):p>

Is selecting everything from the above sample. Can regex help me here to identify just the closest match and any text in between?

Many thanks!

TR

Why would you do this with regex as opposed to standard DOM traversal techniques? — Mike Brant, Oct 07 '14 at 14:02
Well, if you know that there is only text in between, then `]*?>([^<>]*?)Test([^<>]*?)<\/w:p>` might do - but [in general, **NO**](http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/1048572). — Bergi, Oct 07 '14 at 14:02
Okay thanks chaps perhaps ill open up another question on how to revise what i am doing then. Cheers for your help. — Tom Rebbettes, Oct 07 '14 at 14:25

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 07 '14 at 14:29

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(<w:p[^>]+>(?:(?!<\/wp>).)+?<\/w:p>)

Try this.Set flags s.See demo.

answered Oct 07 '14 at 14:29

vks

Worked Great Thanks, atleast it did what i requested. Didn't solve my issue but helped me narrow it down thanks a bunch. Turns out you cant delete a paragraph from using XML SDK if it leaves a parent of Type TableCell empty. I guess TableCells need atleast one paragraph in them. Have gone back to using standard OpenXML SDK doing a compare on the types of the parents. – Tom Rebbettes Oct 07 '14 at 15:53

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