Re: AW: How to use replaceregexp in multi-line context?

[Brian Agnew]

If you're trying to replace stuff in XML but only for particular nodes 
(e.g. in the below you're scoping on an attribute value) then I'd suggest:

http://www.oopsconsultancy.com/software/xmltask/
and doing:
<replace path="/[EMAIL PROTECTED]'statistics.enabled']/value/text()" 
withText="true"/>

Brian

Oliver Ashoff wrote:
Hello David!
 

Example: Consider the following lines of an input file:
 
      <entry name="statistics.enabled">
        <value>true</value>
      </entry>
 
Now, we want to replace the string "true" by "false". But this should be
done
only for the entry "statistics.enabled". So, I use a regular expression
that 
matches the above three line:
 
 <replaceregexp byline="false" flags="m">
   <regexp
pattern="(.*&lt;entry.*name=&#34;statistics.enabled&#34;.*&gt;.*&#10;.*&
lt;value&gt;).*(&lt;/value&gt;.*&#10;.*&lt;/entry&gt;.*$)" />
   <substitution expression="\1false\2" />
   <fileset dir="${etc.dir}" includes="config.xml" />
  </replaceregexp>
 
As you can see, I inserted 2 times the sequences  
   &#10;
so that the 'line breaks' are recognized. Without that it does not work.
Additionally, I use further 'Numerical Character References'  for the
characters '<' and '>'.

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