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Dawid Tokarz
Dawid Tokarz

Reputation: 25

How to delete all characters and lines between two XML tags

I have an XML file which I want to modify with Notepad++. All I want is to delete all characters and lines (simply everything) between two "properties" tags.

<properties>
<property>
  <propertyName>controlPanelDemoURL</propertyName>
  <propertyValues>
    <propertyValue>http://domain.com</propertyValue>
  </propertyValues>
</property>
</properties>

It should look like this:

<properties>
</properties>

What regular expresion (or Notepad++ extended search) should I use?

I've tried <properties>.*</properties>but it works only when everything is located in one line.

Thanks l'L'l. Now I realized I have other problem. Tag <properties></properties> is a part of main <template></template> tag. There is a lot "template" items in this xml file. After using <properties>.*</properties> and replacing with dot matches new line, I'm deleting all of code, started from first until last and every other tag between.

Simplfied XML file structure look like this:

<templates>
<template id="1">
  <id></id>
  <state></state>
  <price></price>
  <type_name></type_name>
  <live_preview_url></live_preview_url>
  <properties>
  <property>
      <propertyName></propertyName>
      <propertyValues>
        <propertyValue></propertyValue>
      </propertyValues>
    </property>
  </properties>
 </template>
 <template id ="2">
  <id></id>
  <state></state>
  <price></price>
  <type_name></type_name>
  <live_preview_url></live_preview_url>
  <properties>
  <property>
      <propertyName></propertyName>
      <propertyValues>
        <propertyValue></propertyValue>
      </propertyValues>
    </property>
  </properties>
 </template>
</templates>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3065

Answers (1)

Yossi
Yossi

Reputation: 12110

Find 

<properties>.*?</properties>

And replace with 

<properties></properties>

Use Regular expressions and . matches a newline

Upvotes: 2

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