Question

I am not soo good in RegEx. Can somebody help me to to replace

<MessageParam name="0" desc="Source Queue" />

with

<MessageParam name="0" desc="Source Queue"></MessageParam>

using regular expression

Answer 1

Regex to match:

(<\s*MessageParam[^>]*)/\s*>

Replacement string:

$1></MessageParam>

You may need to escape the \ character (add an extra \ before it).

I assume > does not appear in the value for the attributes, and the XML is valid.

More generalized version:

Regex to match:

<\s*([^\s>]+)([^>]*)/\s*>

Replacement string:

<$1$2></$1>

For this one, I’m not sure of all the assumptions that I have made. But I still assume > does not appear in the value for the attributes, and the XML is valid.