Caching only closing HTML tags.

[Xeoncross]

I am trying to match HTML tags that aren't SINGLE tags. However, my regex is failing on "a" tags because of the http:// part.

 

(\<([a-z]+)\b[^\/|\>]*\>)
or
(\<([a-z]+)\b[^\>]*(?!\/\>)\>)

 

The first regex matches the < test > and < a hr=site > thing fine - but it doesn't catch the second link.

<this> is a </tag> about something like <br /> or <a href="site.com">site.com</a>
<img/>
<a href="http://site.com">Google.com</a> 
<br />
<meta tag="" />
<input type="text" />

 

The whole goal is that I am scanning for open tags, then closing tags. If there are more open tags than closing tags I will know I need to close those tags.

[effigy]

I am trying to match HTML tags that aren't SINGLE tags.

 

Pairs?

 

<pre>
<?php
$data = <<<DATA
<this> is a </tag> about something like <br /> or <a href="site.com">site.com</a>
<img/>
<a href="http://site.com">Google.com</a>
<br />
<meta tag="" />
<input type="text" />
DATA;
preg_match_all('%<(\w+)[^>]*>.*?</\1>%is', $data, $matches);
print_r($matches);
?>
</pre>