c# - Select xml element by class name with a regex -

i want extract svg element class name c# regex.

for example have this:

<path fill="none" ... class="highcharts-tracker highcharts-tracker" ... stroke-width="22" zindex="2" style=""/> 

and want delete every path elements highcharts-tracker class name using :

 new regex(""); 

anybody know ?

in linq xml, pretty straightforward:

var classtoremove = "highlights-tracker"; var xml = xdocument.parse(svg); var elements = doc.descendants("path")                   .where(x => x.attribute("class") != null &&                               x.attribute("class")                                .value.split(' ')                                .contains(classtoremove)); // remove elements match query elements.remove(); 

you should not use regular expressions try parse xml... xml handled existing apis, , regular expressions not appropriate tool.

edit: if it's malformed (which should have said start with) should try work out why it's malformed , fix before try other processing. there's no excuse xml being malformed these days... there plenty of xml apis every platform in existence.