regex - How can I match XML tags and attributes with a regular expression in Perl?

Question

What I need is something like this:

/<[wd]+ ([wd]+=[wd])+/>/

Something that would match several attribute key/value pairs. Is that possible?

Answer 1

You'll have much more succes using an XML parser, for example, XML::Parser. Parsing XML using regular expressions is very difficult (impossible?) and unless your use case is trivial, a proper XML parser is the reliable solution.