Use Java Pattern to extract word between HTML tag with attributes -

i using java pattern & matcher extract words between 2 tags.

my code like:

final pattern pattern = pattern.compile("<([a-za-z][a-za-z0-9]*)\\b[^>]*>(.*?)</\\1>");     list<string> topicarray = new arraylist<string>();     final matcher matcher = pattern.matcher("<city count='1' relevance='0.304' normalized='shanghai,china'>shanghai</city>");     while (matcher.find()) {         topicarray.add(matcher.group(1));     } 

the system gives me city output instead of shanghai. what's wrong it?

thanks

you can try next:

private static final pattern regex_pattern =          pattern.compile("<[^>]*>([^<>]*)<[^>]*>");  public static void main(string[] args) {     string input = "<city count='1' relevance='0.304' normalized='shanghai,china'>shanghai</city>";      system.out.println(         regex_pattern.matcher(input).replaceall("$1")     );  // prints "shanghai" }