Regular Expressions: Can't quite figure this problem out

[Robert Dailey]

Thanks.

Any easier way to do a 'replace' then using start(), end(), and slicing
operations? I'm currently doing it manually.

On 9/24/07, Miles <semanticist at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/24/07, Robert Dailey <rcdailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm attempting to create a regular expression that removes redundancy in
> > empty XML elements. For example:
> >
> > <root></root>
> >
> > The regular expression would convert the XML above into:
> >
> >  <root/>
>
> If you can guarantee that the XML is well-formed, then this should work:
>
> pattern = r'<([^/>][^>]*(?<!/))></[^>]+>'
> replace = r'<\1/>'
>
> -Miles
>
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