Question

I have been trying to match tag names only (without the < and > signs) is cases of regular tags:

<w:tag w:attrib1="http://url" w:attrib2="anyValue">

without matching solo tags (opening-closing tags):

<w:tag2 w:attrib1="anyValue" w:attrib2="http://url" />

(please pay attention to the URLs in the attributes as they contain forward slashes (/))

but could not manage to get to it with:

regex = re.compile('(?<=<)w:\w+(?=[\w\W]+>)(?!\s/>)')

print(regex.findall(string))

getting this:

['w:tag','w:tag2']

expecting this:

['w:tag']

any thoughts?

Cheers.

Answer 1

Found it:

regex = re.compile('(?<=<)w:\w+(?=>)|(?<=<)w:\w+(?=[\s\w+:\w+="[\w/:.-]+"]{0,10}>)')