Posted by Jim Michaels on 03/02/06 00:35

"Fabian Hore" <fabianhore@email.com> wrote in message
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> Regexp can be pretty brutal for that kind of document parsing.
>
> In direct answer to your question, I'm not sure you can negate a pattern,
> only a list of
> characters in brakets like so:
> '!<#mytag>([^<]+)</#mytag>!'
>
> any '<' character between the tags would break the pattern, but if you
> stick to valid HTML
> then you shouldn't find that character between tags anyway
>
> allow matched tags to have attributes like so:

actually, his specification was to include the starting element, but not the
ending element. so it would be

'!(<mytag[^>]*>.+?)</mytag>!'


>
> I suggest a look at the Smarty template engine. <smarty.php.net>
>
> --or--
>
> How about defining your own XML markup with two namespaces
>
> <h1>Regular heading</h1>
> <tpl:h1>Editable heading</tpl:h1>
> -- stuff --
> <tpl:p> ... editable paragraph ... </tpl:p>
>
> A custom XML parser routine could do whatever you need when it comes
> across
> your special tags.
>
> I am about to embark on something similar myself
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "Paul Renton" <paul.renton@btconnect.com> wrote in message
> news:dtvapm$qu4$1@nwrdmz02.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm writing a templating system and everything's going great except for
>> my main stumbling block. Regular expressions. d:-(
>>
>> What I'm trying to do is to pick out a starting tag and a finishing tag
>> with anything in-between but the finishing tag. For example:
>>
>> {#my_tag}
>> blah blah blah
>> {/#my_tag}
>>
>> However, if there is another instance of this also on the page like:
>>
>> {#my_tag}
>> blah blah blah
>> {/#my_tag}
>>
>> -- Stuff --
>>
>> {#my_tag}
>> blah blah blah
>> {/#my_tag}
>>
>> I don't want the regex to use the start of the first block and the end of
>> the second because that would cut out everything in between.
>>
>> So what I'm looking for is something similar to:
>>
>> {#tag_name}[anything that doesn't contain {/#tag_name}]{/#tag_name}
>>
>>
>> I hope this makes sense.
>>
>>
>> Many, many thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>> M@
>>
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