regular expression for matching XML

[bling]

hmmm, there isn't a "general" forum for questions so i figure i'll post here.

i'm monitoring traffic with winpcap and i want to parse out all XML messages. when the data comes in i filter everything out so that only ASCII characters are parsed, so that takes care of all the extra crap.

here's the regex string i'm using

<(-[A-Za-z0-9:]+)[- &/:;'\.="]*>.*</\1>

it seems to work, but there might be some cases i'm missing. any ideas? thanks.

[master5001]

hmmm, there isn't a "general" forum for questions...

You are right, there are two.

And this question has been asked several times, so be a good sport and utilize the search function.

[bling]

sorry my bad

i searched the i only found 1 match:
http://cboard.cprogramming.com/showt...ight=xml+regex

however, that doesn't match a SOAP envelope header...actually what i posted doesn't either...
the namespace attribute doesn't match...

[master5001]

Drats... I remember one that had links to some pretty nice reg-ex libraries.

[bling]

ooops, i found the error (the 2nd part only takes special characters but not regular alphanumerics, the following appears to be working:

<([-:\w]+)[-:=\s"/\.\w]*>.*</\1>