Question

I’m trying to use jquery to select the contents of a certain XML node:

var entry_text = $('entry_text').text();

and apply a regular expression to it, sort of like this one:

\<entry_text\>(?<url>.*?/&gt;)(?<text>.*?)\</entry_text\>

So that if this is the XML node entry_text:

<entry_text>&lt;img src=&quot;http://site.com/image.jpg&quot; width=&quot;431&quot; height=&quot;480&quot; /&gt;
    Lorem Ipsum dolor sit amet</entry_text>

I’ll get something like this:

<entry_text>Lorem Ipsum dolor sit amet</entry_text>
<entry_image><img src="http://site.com/image.jpg" width="431" height="480"/>

Only I’m not sure what the right regex is, or how to apply it to my string. Any ideas?

Answer 1

You may check these useful pages:

http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-validation/

and this is also a great plugin for regx matching in jquery:

http://plugins.jquery.com/plugin-tags/regular-expression

Let me know if this helped you, thanks.