Hey Gerhard,
Gerhard Häring wrote: > > Tim van der Leeuw wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to create a regular expression for matching some particular >> XML strings. I want to extract the contents of a particular XML tag, >> only if it follows one tag, but not follows another tag. Complicating >> this, is that there can be any number of other tags in between. [...] > > Sounds like this would be easier to implement using Python's SAX API. > > Here's a short example that does something similar to what you want to > achieve: > > [...] > I so far forgot to say a "thank you" for the suggestion :-) The sample code as you sent it doesn't do what I need to do, but I did look at it for creating SAX handler code that does what I want. It took me a while to implement, as it didn't fit in the parser-engine I had and I was close to making a release. But still: thanks! --Tim -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Python-regex-question-tp17773487p18997385.html Sent from the Python - python-list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list