Find everything between two XML tags with RegEx

Question

In RegEx, I want to find the tag and everything between two XML tags, like the following:

<primaryAddress>     <addressLine>280 Flinders Mall</addressLine>     <geoCodeGranularity>PROPERTY</geoCodeGranularity>     <latitude>-19.261365</latitude>     <longitude>146.815585</longitude>     <postcode>4810</postcode>     <state>QLD</state>     <suburb>Townsville</suburb>     <type>PHYSICAL</type> </primaryAddress> 

I want to find the tag and everything between primaryAddress, and erase that.

Everything between the primaryAddress tag is a variable, but I want to remove the entire tag and sub-tags whenever I get primaryAddress.

Anyone have any idea how to do that?

Answer 1

It is not a good idea to use regex for HTML/XML parsing...

However, if you want to do it anyway, search for regex pattern

<primaryAddress>[\s\S]*?<\/primaryAddress> 

and replace it with empty string...