Regular express for <p>, <ul> and <ol> tags

[Shahid]

Hi,
I am parsing an .HTML file that contains following example code:
<div>
<p class="html_pre formatted" awml:style="HTM L Preformatted"
dir="ltr" style="text-align:left"><sp an style="font-size:12pt;font-
family:'Arial'" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US">Normal Text Arial 12
Black before bullets.</span></p>
<ul>
<li class="html_pre formatted" dir="ltr" style="text-
align:left">&nb sp;<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Arial'"
xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US">Bullet1: If you want to convert bitmap
images Single Line.</span></li>

<li class="html_pre formatted" dir="ltr" style="text-
align:left">&nb sp;<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Arial'"
xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US">Bullet2: D you want to convert </
span><span style="font-weight:bold;fon t-size:13pt;font-family:'Times
New Roman';color:#f f0000" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US">Times New
Roman Bold Red 13</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-
family:'Arial'" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US"like BMP, JPG?</span></
li>
<li class="html_pre formatted" dir="ltr" style="text-
align:left">&nb sp;<span style="font-weight:bold;fon t-size:12pt;font-
family:'Arial'" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US">Bullet3 bold:</
span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Arial'" xml:lang="en-US"
lang="en-US"If you want to convert bitmap images like BMP, JPG</
span></li>
<li class="html_pre formatted" dir="ltr" style="text-
align:left">&nb sp;<span style="font-weight:bold;fon t-size:14pt;font-
family:'Arial'" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US">Bullet4 bold 14: </
span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Arial'" xml:lang="en-US"
lang="en-US">If you want to convert bitmap images like BMP, JPG 2
lines.</span></li>
<li class="html_pre formatted" dir="ltr" style="text-
align:left">&nb sp;<span style="font-weight:bold;fon t-size:16pt;font-
family:'Arial'; color:#ff0000" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US">Bullet4
bold 14 all Red: </span><span style="font-size:16pt;font-
family:'Arial'; color:#ff0000" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US">If you
want to convert bitmap images like BMP, JPG.</span></li>

<li class="html_pre formatted" dir="ltr" style="text-
align:left">&nb sp;<span style="font-weight:bold;fon t-size:14pt;font-
family:'Arial'" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US">Bullet4 bold 14 Black:
</
span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Arial'; color:#0000ff"
xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US">Blue If you want to convert bitmap. </
span><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:'Arial'; color:#008000"
xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US">Green 16 images like BMP, JPG.</span>
</li>
</ul>
<p class="html_pre formatted" awml:style="HTM L Preformatted"
dir="ltr" style="text-align:left"><sp an style="font-size:14pt;font-
family:'Arial'; color:#ff0000" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US">Normal
Text Red Arial 14 after bullets.</span></p>
<p class="html_pre formatted" awml:style="HTM L Preformatted"
dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;marg in-left:0.2500in"> <span
style="font-weight:bold;fon t-size:14pt;font-family:'Arial'"
xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left"></p>
<p></p>
</div>

I am trying to parse all the <p>, <oland <ultags but couldn't
succeed yet.
I am trying following Regular Expression(RE):
"(<[pP][^>]*>(.*)</[pP]>)|(<[oO][lL][^>]+>(.*)</[oO][lL]>)|(<[uU][lL]
[^>]+>(.*)</[uU][lL]>)"

I am using preg_match_all( ). Remember I am working in PHP.
If any one can help me, I will be very grateful to him/her. I need its
solution urgent.

[Michael Fesser]

Re: Regular express for &lt;p&gt;, &lt;ul&gt; and &lt;ol&gt; tags

..oO(Shahid)

>I am parsing an .HTML file that contains following example code:
<div>
<p class="html_pre formatted" awml:style="HTM L Preformatted"
>dir="ltr" style="text-align:left"><sp an style="font-size:12pt;font-
>family:'Arial' " xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US">Normal Text Arial 12
>Black before bullets.</span></p>
<ul>
>[...]
>
>I am trying to parse all the <p>, <oland <ultags but couldn't
>succeed yet.
>I am trying following Regular Expression(RE):
>"(<[pP][^>]*>(.*)</[pP]>)|(<[oO][lL][^>]+>(.*)</[oO][lL]>)|(<[uU][lL]
>[^>]+>(.*)</[uU][lL]>)"
>
>I am using preg_match_all( ). Remember I am working in PHP.
>If any one can help me, I will be very grateful to him/her. I need its
>solution urgent.

Why don't you use the DOM with an XPath expression?

Micha

[Curtis]

Re: Regular express for &lt;p&gt;, &lt;ul&gt; and &lt;ol&gt; tags

Shahid wrote:

Hi,
I am parsing an .HTML file that contains following example code:
[snip]
>
I am trying to parse all the <p>, <oland <ultags but couldn't
succeed yet.
I am trying following Regular Expression(RE):
"(<[pP][^>]*>(.*)</[pP]>)|(<[oO][lL][^>]+>(.*)</[oO][lL]>)|(<[uU][lL]
[^>]+>(.*)</[uU][lL]>)"
>
I am using preg_match_all( ). Remember I am working in PHP.
If any one can help me, I will be very grateful to him/her. I need its
solution urgent.

Have you bothered checking php.net's docs? Their page for
preg_match_all has an example regex doing what you want.

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Curtis