Structural search and replace examples
Searching for XML and HTML tags, attributes, and their values
The simplest template to search for a tag is <$tag$/>
.
By placing constraints on the variable $tag$
, you can specify tags that you want to find. For example, if you specify li
, you will all li
tags.
Consider the following template for searching in XML and HTML: <$tag$ $attribute$=$value$ />
. For example, if you specify the text filter id
for the $attribute$
variable and the \d+
regular expression as the text filter for the $value$
variable, you can find all tags that have numeric values in the id
attribute.
Using the Script filter for XML and HTML content
Delete all lines that have the id attribute greater than 2
In the Search template field, we create a template that searches for all li
tags with numeric values (\d+
) in id
attributes. We expand our search to the whole string with such values (Search target = Complete match).
We filter those lines with the following Groovy script: d.getText().replaceAll (/"/, '').toInteger() > 2
. The script reads the content of the d
variable and returns it as a string (for example, "1"
). Then the script replaces all quotes and converts the string value to integer and compares it with 2
.
In the Replace template field, we put nothing to delete the whole string. After the search, we select Replace All to perform the replacing.
Convert uppercase values of the class attribute in p tags to lowercase
In the Search template field, we create a template that searches for all p
tags with uppercase values ([A-Z].*
and Match case) in class
attributes. We narrow our search only to these to class
values (Search target = b).
In the Replace template field, we create a new variable $d$
and assign a Groovy script to it (b.getText().toLowerCase()
). After the search, we select Replace All to perform the replacing.