extracting attribute value in XML using regex

Question

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<!DOCTYPE ... ]> 
<abc-config version="THIS" id="abc">
...
</abc-config>

Hi all,

In the code above, how can I extract the value of version attribute using Regex in Groovy/Java?

Thanks.

Answer 1

A regex to handle this could be something like:

/<\?xml version="([0-9.]+)"/

I'll spare you one of the 10000 lectures about not using a regex to parse markup languages.

Edit: The One whose Name cannot be expressed in the Basic Multilingual Plane, He compelled me.