Help needed on Regular expressions

Question

Hi All,
I need to extract the value of the below 2 tags
1. <S143:name> (main tag not the <S143:name> of <S143:specCharacteristicProperty>)
2. <S110:stringValue>
<S211:falloutCharacteristic>
               *<S143:name>String</S143:name>*               <S143:value>
                    <S110:stringCharacteristicEnum>
                         *<S110:stringValue>String</S110:stringValue>*                         <S110:stringRestriction>
                              <S110:minLength>0</S110:minLength>
                              <S110:maxLength>0</S110:maxLength>
                              <S110:pattern>String</S110:pattern>
                         </S110:stringRestriction>
                    </S110:stringCharacteristicEnum>
               </S143:value>
               <S143:description>String</S143:description>
               <S143:specCharacteristicProperty>
                    <S143:name>String</S143:name>
                    <S143:value>String</S143:value>
               </S143:specCharacteristicProperty>
          </S211:falloutCharacteristic>Any pointers on this?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Well..Personally i feel regex on this would be a tough job. You try creating a temp file and pass your xml string along. Then try using org.w3c.dom on it. Something like :
String xmlString = "Your XML String";
          File temp = null;
          try {
               temp = File.createTempFile("test",".xml");
               temp.deleteOnExit();
               BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(temp));
               out.write(xmlString);
               out.close();
          } catch (IOException e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
          }Or you could actually create a physical file, if space and credentials permit, access it from a physical location and try using DOM in it.. Cant think of anything better now.