Regular Expression for xml element

Question

I have an xml in the form of a string. Let's say that the element name is TestDate and the date is the form YYYY-MM-DD. So in other words <TestDate>1950-03-31</TestDate>.

How do I find this.

Lets say I have string xml;

xml contains the element TestDate. I want to get that using a regular expression.

string regularExpression = @"";
Regex regex = new Regex(regularExpression , RegexOptions.Compiled);

What should be going in for regular expression.

Your syntax and object references imply you are using C#, but please specify what language you are using in a tag or the question or both — Code Jockey
– Code Jockey, Commented Nov 3, 2011 at 15:53

kidata · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-03 14:27:01Z

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This should match your Date: [0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}

if you can use Perl-RegEx-Syntax, you can use \d instead the [0-9]

answered Nov 3, 2011 at 14:27

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Code Jockey Over a year ago

\d works for almost every flavor of regex, but as specified in a comment to another answer, the expression should match the whole tag, not just a date

Nps · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-03 14:47:46Z

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If you want search data in that element only than itshould be

<TestDate>[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}</TestData>

Another aproach is to use XPath. Load xml string in XmlDocument and extract all similar nodes. Below code will return all TestDate Nodes.

XmlNode[] nodes = doc.SelectNodes("//TestDate");

edited Nov 3, 2011 at 14:47

answered Nov 3, 2011 at 14:37

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DotNetUser Over a year ago

I want to get the whole element and also its content.

Code Jockey Over a year ago

Your regex specifies matching of unbalanced tags (if used verbatim), due to a typo, I believe.

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