regex to get cdata value

[divya kundapur]

i need to get cdata value from this <user:user.clearTextPassword xsi:type=\"string\"><![CDATA[xyz123]]></user:user.clearTextPassword> any help

[Ninad Kulkarni]

Go through following docs that may help you

java.util.regex.Pattern
java.util.regex.Matcher :- matches() , start(), end(), group()

[Wouter Oet]

Assuming this is part of an xml file, I wouldn't use regex. Because the regex will become very complex (and hard to read) as your xml file becomes more complex.
I would use an xml parser which will handle the xml-namespaces, the CDATA and more.

Btw: why are there slashes by the attribute? Did you copy it from a String literal?

[William Brogden]

Since the CDATA section tag is always written the same way, why not plain String matching such as indexOf() ?

Bill

[James Sabre]

I'm a great fan of regex but not for parsing XML. Since you are only interested in one element, to me it would make much more sense to use SAX.