Comments on snippet: 'Regular Expression to Grab the Content of an XML Element' http://snipplr.com Snipplr comments feed' en-us Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:52:50 GMT rengber said on 8/11/08 http://snipplr.com/view/2661/regular-expression-to-grab-the-content-of-an-xml-element/ Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:45:54 GMT http://snipplr.com/view/2661/regular-expression-to-grab-the-content-of-an-xml-element/ Tomalak said on 9/4/07 http://snipplr.com/view/2661/regular-expression-to-grab-the-content-of-an-xml-element/ Note that this only works with RegEx engines that support lookaround and non-greedy matching, which is not guaranteed.

If you do not have those options, you can capture the contents in parentheses: ([^<]*)

In loops, this is faster than using lookaround and non-greedy matching, too.

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