regular expression help?

[priti]

$pattern = '/<Insurers>(.*)<\/Insurers\>/';
preg_match_all($pattern, $xml, $matches);

print_r($matches);

i have a xml string from which i want to extract all <insurer> in different part of string..
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<xs:schema id="Insurers" xmlns="" xmlnss="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-comml-msdata">
</xs:schema>
- <diffgr:diffgram xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-comml-msdata" xmlns:diffgr="urn:schemas-microsoft-comml-diffgram-v1">
<Insurers>
<Insurer diffgr:id="Insurer10" msdata:rowOrder="0">
<insurer>AdfgfA</insurer>
</Insurer>
<Insurer diffgr:id="Insurer20" msdata:rowOrder="1">
<insurer>AEdfgg</insurer>
</Insurer>
<Insurer diffgr:id="Insurer30" msdata:rowOrder="2">
<insurer>345345</insurer>
</Insurer>
</Insurers>
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.


i want only

<Insurers>
<Insurer diffgr:id="Insurer10" msdata:rowOrder="0">
<insurer>AdfgfA</insurer>
</Insurer>
<Insurer diffgr:id="Insurer20" msdata:rowOrder="1">
<insurer>AEdfgg</insurer>
</Insurer>
<Insurer diffgr:id="Insurer30" msdata:rowOrder="2">
<insurer>345345</insurer>
</Insurer>
</Insurers>

how can i do this??

[wibble wobble]

<?php

$xml = <<<EOD
<xs:schema id="Insurers" xmlns="" xmlnss="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-comml-msdata">
</xs:schema>
- <diffgr:diffgram xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-comml-msdata" xmlns:diffgr="urn:schemas-microsoft-comml-diffgram-v1">
<Insurers>
<Insurer diffgr:id="Insurer10" msdata:rowOrder="0">
<insurer>AdfgfA</insurer>
</Insurer>
<Insurer diffgr:id="Insurer20" msdata:rowOrder="1">
<insurer>AEdfgg</insurer>
</Insurer>
<Insurer diffgr:id="Insurer30" msdata:rowOrder="2">
<insurer>345345</insurer>
</Insurer>
</Insurers>
EOD;

$pattern = '~<Insurers>(.*)</Insurers>~s';

preg_match_all($pattern, $xml, $matches);

print_r($matches);

Works fine.

[galen]

is there a reason why you don't want to use simplexml?