regex101: PCRE (Legacy) Substitution Workspace

1st Alternative((?<=<|<\/)|(?<= ))[A-Za-z0-9]+:

Group 1((?<=<|<\/)|(?<= ))

1st Alternative(?<=<|<\/)

Positive Lookbehind(?<=<|<\/)

1st Alternative<

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

2nd Alternative<\/

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

2nd Alternative(?<= )

Positive Lookbehind(?<= )

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

Character Class[A-Za-z0-9]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case sensitive)

0-9one character from 0 (48₁₀) to 9 (57₁₀)

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

2nd Alternative xmlns(:[A-Za-z0-9]+)?=".*?"

xmlnsthe literal text xmlns (case sensitive)

Group 2(:[A-Za-z0-9]+)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

Character Class[A-Za-z0-9]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case sensitive)

0-9one character from 0 (48₁₀) to 9 (57₁₀)

="the literal text ="

.*?any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

25 tokens

Regular Expression

((?<=<|<\/)|(?<= ))[A-Za-z0-9]+:| xmlns(:[A-Za-z0-9]+)?=".*?"

New

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<ArrayOfInserts xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <insert>
    <offer xmlns="http://schema.peters.com/doc_353/1/Types">0174587</offer>
    <type2 xmlns="http://schema.peters.com/doc_353/1/Types">014717</type2>
    <supplier xmlns="http://schema.peters.com/doc_353/1/Types">019172</supplier>
    <id_frame xmlns="http://schema.peters.com/doc_353/1/Types" />
    <type3 xmlns="http://schema.peters.com/doc_353/1/Types">
      <type2 />
      <main>false</main>
    </type3>
    <status xmlns="http://schema.peters.com/doc_353/1/Types">Some state</status>
  </insert>
</ArrayOfInserts>

Extraction

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<ArrayOfInserts xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <insert>
    <offer xmlns="http://schema.peters.com/doc_353/1/Types">0174587</offer>
    <type2 xmlns="http://schema.peters.com/doc_353/1/Types">014717</type2>
    <supplier xmlns="http://schema.peters.com/doc_353/1/Types">019172</supplier>
    <id_frame xmlns="http://schema.peters.com/doc_353/1/Types" />
    <type3 xmlns="http://schema.peters.com/doc_353/1/Types">
      <type2 />
      <main>false</main>
    </type3>
    <status xmlns="http://schema.peters.com/doc_353/1/Types">Some state</status>
  </insert>
</ArrayOfInserts>