Question

I have a really poorly formatted XML file and I am looking to replace the names of some of the tags.

For example…

<column name="id">1</column> 

should become

<id>1</id>

I have over 7000 entries and don’t fancy doing this by hand. I am using Dreamweaver’s Find & Replace. Obviously the value “1” in the example is a dynamic value.

Cheers for any help…

Answer 1

Find:

<column name="id">(\d+)</column>

Replace with

<id>$1</id>

Make sure you check Use regular expression in the dialog box.

See further on Adobe’s site.