Extract records from file using RegEx

Question

Hi guys,
I was wondering if there's a way to extract records from a text file using regular expressions matching groups in Endeca Integrator.
I have several XML files and I have mapped and extracted records from them using XML Reader component, but I need to preserve the tags of mapped elements. For example, if I have the following XML:
<Msg><Para>Some text. <Emphasis>More text</Emphasis><Para></Msg>
mapping Msg element to an output cloverField will return "Some text. More text". I need to preserve tags, so I need an output like: "<Msg><Para>Some text. <Emphasis>More text</Emphasis><Para></Msg>",
I don't know if there's a way to accomplish this by modifying the setting of the XML Reader component, but I was thinking of using regular expressions to solve this. Unfortunately, I can't find a way to do it by using the built-in components in Integrator.
The final solution is do it programmatically without using Integrator, but I want to know if I'm missing something.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

This will get the name and extension in separate variables
set vTheFile to (choose file) as text
set {TempTID, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, ":"}
set vPath to (vTheFile's text items 1 thru -2 as text)
-- Add this for the file name
set vFile to vTheFile's text item -1
-- This will get the name and extension as  seperate items
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "."
set {vFileName, VfileNameExtension} to {text item 1 of vFile, text item 2 of vFile}
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to TempTID
display dialog "Path is: " & vPath & return & return & "File is: " & vFile & return & "File name is: " & vFileName & return & "Extension is : " & VfileNameExtension
(but I think I am done now)