Matching XML Tag Contents with Regex

[Diez B. Roggisch]

> I was hoping a simple pattern like <tag>.*text.*</tag> wouldn't be too
> complicated for Regex, but now I'm starting to agree with you. Parsing
> the entire XML Dom would probably be a lot easier.

That's one of the common problems with rexes and XML/HTML. They start 
out fast and easy, but at some point they blow up - or fail to fulfill 
the task.

Diez