Regex find the next specific tag eclipse

Question

I am trying to replace / to null, like this

<h:graphicImage id="">

My code below.

<h:graphicImage id=""/>
<a>
<b>
<rich:componentControl target=""/>
<a>
<b>
</h:graphicImage>

The regex I used,

(<h:graphicImage[^>]*\s*)/>[\s\S]<rich:componentControl[^>]*)

It works if there no tags or content between the two tags but unfortunately in my code, there many tags between them. Any solution?

<h:graphicImage id=""/>
<rich:componentControl target=""/></h:graphicImage>

Edit

To be more clear about my question, I would like to replace

<h:graphicImage id=""/>

to

<h:graphicImage id="">

when h:graphicImage tag has rich:componentControl this tag.

the code is like this below

<h:graphicImage id=""/>
<a>
<b>
<rich:componentControl target=""/>
<a>
<b>
</h:graphicImage>

You should use an XML parser (perhaps use XPath for match), trying to use regular expressions for XML is not a good idea. — greg-449, Mar 04 '15 at 08:29
Just a reminder: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454 :-) — oopbase, Mar 04 '15 at 08:43
Hello there, I clarified my question again. So the problem is I have to replace the symbol / when the h:graphicImage tag has rich:componentControl tag. The difficulty is the tags between them. I dont know how to ignore those tags — shu hung chou, Mar 04 '15 at 08:43

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 04 '15 at 09:56

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Don't use regex to parse XML or HTML That being said, this should work (with ungreedy/Lazy flag set to true):

(<h:graphicImage[^>.]*)\/>[.\S\s]*(<rich:componentControl[^>]*)

answered Mar 04 '15 at 09:56

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