Regular expression hierarchical expression

Question

Is it possible / practical to build one regular expression that matches hierarchical data?

For instance:

<h1>Action</h1>
  <h2>Title1</h2><div>data1</div>
  <h2>Title2</h2><div>data2</div>
<h1>Adventure</h1>
  <h2>Title3</h2><div>data3</div>

I would like to get a match.

"Action", "Title1", "data1"
"Action", "Title2", "data2"
"Adventure", "Title3", "data3"

As I see it, this will require knowledge that there is a hierarchical structure, and if I encode a template for capturing H1, it will correspond only to the first record of this hierarchy. If I am not a code for H1, then I cannot capture it. I wonder if there are any special tricks that I use to solve this problem.

This is a .NET project.

Answer 1

The solution is to not use regular expressions. They are not strong enough for this kind of thing.

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- Pass whatever you found between those tags into the recursive function.

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