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DiapDealer · 08-10-2019, 09:43 AM

You would only have to do two checks if you didn't know what you were looking for. Otherwise, you simply search for what matters ... regardless of position.

If a meta tag with the name "xyz" is what you need to find, then you use a regex that doesn't care in what order the name attribute appears:

Code:

<meta[^>]*(?=name=\"xyz\")[^>]*>

If it's the content attribute that you're looking to match, then its:

Code:

<meta[^>]*(?=content=\"123\")[^>]*>

Not trying to discourage you from using bs4/lxml for pure xml, just trying to point out that unless you've got a lot of complicated metadata editing to do, a simple find and replace could turn out to be much simpler and use less lines of code.

08-10-2019, 09:43 AM	#28
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 28,709 Karma: 205039118 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	You would only have to do two checks if you didn't know what you were looking for. Otherwise, you simply search for what matters ... regardless of position. If a meta tag with the name "xyz" is what you need to find, then you use a regex that doesn't care in what order the name attribute appears: Code: <meta[^>](?=name=\"xyz\")[^>]> If it's the content attribute that you're looking to match, then its: Code: <meta[^>](?=content=\"123\")[^>]> Not trying to discourage you from using bs4/lxml for pure xml, just trying to point out that unless you've got a lot of complicated metadata editing to do, a simple find and replace could turn out to be much simpler and use less lines of code.