Question

I am making a regex expression in which I only want to match wrong tags like: <p> *some text here, some other tags may be here as well but no ending 'p' tag* </p>

 <P>Affectionately Inscribed </P><P>TO </P><P>HENRY BULLAR, </P><P>(of the western circuit)<P>PREFACE</P> 

In the above same text I want to get the result as <P>(of the western circuit)<P> and nothing else should be captured. I’m using this but its not working:

<P>[^\(</P>\)]*<P> 

Please help.

Answer 1

Regex is not always a good choice for xml/html type data. In particular, attributes, case-sensitivity, comments, etc all have a big impact.

For xhtml, I’d use XmlDocument/XDocument and an xpath query.

For ‘non-x’ html, I’d look at the HTML Agility Pack and the same.