Regex in word XML

Question

I have an xml that came from a docx in this format:

<w:p w:rsidR="00AE2D8E" w:rsidRPr="00AE2D8E" w:rsidRDefault="00AE2D8E">
    <w:pPr>
        <w:rPr>
            <w:lang w:val="en-US"/>
        </w:rPr>
    </w:pPr>
    <w:r w:rsidRPr="00AE2D8E">
        <w:rPr>
            <w:lang w:val="en-US"/>
        </w:rPr>
        <w:t xml:space="preserve">Lorem ipsum dolor sit </w:t>
    </w:r>
    <w:proofErr w:type="spellStart"/>
    <w:r w:rsidRPr="00AE2D8E">
        <w:rPr>
            <w:b/>
            <w:lang w:val="en-US"/>
        </w:rPr>
        <w:t>amet</w:t>
    </w:r>
    <w:proofErr w:type="spellEnd"/>
    <w:r w:rsidRPr="00AE2D8E">
        <w:rPr>
            <w:b/>
            <w:lang w:val="en-US"/>
        </w:rPr>
        <w:t xml:space="preserve"> </w:t>
    </w:r>
    <w:proofErr w:type="spellStart"/>
    <w:r w:rsidRPr="00AE2D8E">
        <w:rPr>
            <w:b/>
            <w:lang w:val="en-US"/>
        </w:rPr>
        <w:t>consecteur</w:t>
    </w:r>
    <w:proofErr w:type="spellEnd"/>
    <w:r w:rsidRPr="00AE2D8E">
        <w:rPr>
            <w:b/>
            <w:lang w:val="en-US"/>
        </w:rPr>
        <w:t>.</w:t>
    </w:r>
    <w:bookmarkStart w:id="0" w:name="_GoBack"/>
    <w:bookmarkEnd w:id="0"/>
</w:p>

What is written in docx is "Lorem ipsum dolor sit Amet consecteur." but it ends up breaking because of the differences in font, Bold, etc.

The problem is that I need to replace the text "Lorem ipsum dolor sit Amet consecteur." with any other text.

Does anyone know how to do this by regex? Is it possible? If not, what other viable option?

EDIT: So my goal is to replace the text "Lorem ipsum dolor sit Amet consecteur." with another text. The problem is that in the middle of it, on account of docx xml, are created orientation tags of text formatting (, ). The regex I have here is:

\bLorem ipsum dolor sit amet consecteur.\b

This regex ends up not finding the phrase on account of the codes in the middle, the ideal is that it replaced ignoring the codes in the middle.

Answer 1

The best way to capture a text in the case of your XML is by using the open and close tags as the capture delimiter, ie, capture anything that is outside the tags, starting to capture any character from the closing of the tag > and delimiting the catch until another tag is opened <.

The next regex does just that:

>([A-zÀ-ÿ.,:?! ]{1,})<|>([ A-zÀ-ÿ.,:?!]{1,})\n

You can see how this regex works here.

Explanation of the regex:

• >([A-zÀ-ÿ.,:?! ]{1,})< - states that regex will start capturing from the character <, from there we have a capture group ([A-zÀ-ÿ]{1,}), it will capture 1 or more letters, numbers, spaces or punctuation, provided that these characters then have the opening of another tag or is up <
• | - is an OR operator, it indicates that this regex can accept the previous pattern or the default after the delimiter
• >([ A-zÀ-ÿ.,:?!]{1,})\n - does the same thing as group 1, but its delimiter is line breaking, for cases where the text is the last thing from the line to the opening of the tag in the next line.