Question

Need a regular expression to catch the everything nested in target tag.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<data>
<target>
"<x id="c400c8394f0a"  pid="NLCaption" name="NLCaption" />Caption"
</target>

<target />

<target><x id="a1e6b03cb682"  pid="NLSheets" name="NLSheets" />Sheets"</target>

</data>

Thanks to Brettz, Who helped me in writing the following regular expression

$pattern = "@<target(?:\s.*?)?>(.*?)</target\s*>@s";

This regular expression does the job and help me getting all the content. But the only problem is that it also catches the <target /> tag as well.

I wan to modify the regular expression that donot catches unpaired tag. i.e. <target />

Please help me

Answer 1

$tagname = 'target';
$pattern = "@<$tagname(?:\s.*?!/)?>(.*?)</$tagname\s*>@s";