I cant seem to be able to build a good regex expression (in javascript) that extracts each attribute from an xml node. For example,
<Node attribute="one" attribute2="two" n="nth"></node>
I need an express to give me an array of
['attribute="one"', 'attribute2="two"' ,'n="nth"']
... Any help would be appreciated. Thank you
In case you missed Kerrek's comment:
And the link: RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags
You can get the attributes of a node by iterating over its attributes property:
function getAttributes(el) {
var r = [];
var a, atts = el.attributes;
for (var i=0, iLen=atts.length; i<iLen; i++) {
a = atts[i];
r.push(a.name + ': ' + a.value);
}
alert(r.join('\n'));
}
Of course you probably want to do somethig other than just put them in an alert.
Here is an article on MDN that includes links to relevant standards:
try this~
<script type="text/javascript">
var myregexp = /<node((\s+\w+=\"[^\"]+\")+)><\/node>/im;
var match = myregexp.exec("<Node attribute=\"one\" attribute2=\"two\" n=\"nth\"></node>");
if (match != null) {
result = match[1].trim();
var arrayAttrs = result.split(/\s+/);
alert(arrayAttrs);}
</script>
I think you could get it using the following. You would want the second and third matching group.
<[\w\d\-_]+\s+(([\w\d\-_]+)="(.*?)")*>
<ns1:tagname .... >, or an attribute name contains a colon (:) or a period (.) character (not included in the appropriate part of the regular expression) or the value contains a double quote character.The regex is /\w+=".+"/g (note the g of global).
You might try it right now on your firebug / chrome console by doing:
var matches = '<Node attribute="one" attribute2="two" n="nth"></node>'.match(/\w+="\w+"/g)
