正则表达式：Java提取xml标记之间的内容

Question

I have an xml string

<client>12345abcde</client>

and I want to use regex to extract the contents between client tag and store in a variable. Currently I have

Matcher m = Pattern.compile("(.*)<client>(.*)</client>(.*)").matcher("<client>12345abcde</client>"); 
    m.matches(); 

String value = m.group(2);

but that doesn't seem to work.

Answer 1

Matcher m =   Pattern.compile(".*<client>(.*)<\\/client>.*").matcher("<client>12345abcde</client>"); 
m.matches(); 

String value = m.group(2);