Regular Expressions to parse template tags in XML

Question

I need to parse some XML to pull out embedded template tags for further parsing. I can\'t seem to bend Python\'s regular expressions to do what I want, though.

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Answer 1

Never ever parse HTML or XML or SGML with regular expressions.

Always use tools like lxml, libxml2 or Beautiful - they will ever do a smarter and better job than your code .