How to match with RegExp outside of HTML Tags [duplicate] - html

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How can I match some alphanumerical words that are outside of an HTML Tag instead of match every words
Example:
<div id="mariano mariano mariano" nota="mariano/mariano">mariano was looking forward Mariano. I want to match this "Mariano" too. Mariano</div>
In this example I want to match all "Mariano" outside of the tag id.
I think the key of this issue is looking forward for a "<" before a ">" and match that word, but if the regex find ">" before a "<" this means that the word is in the tag,
But I couldn't manage to achieve/produce a Regex for this.
I fail trying to concat this Regex (?<=^|>)[^><]+?(?=<|$) with another one.
And my final lowest quality solution was:
<!-- language: lang-js -->
var searchFor = new RegExp("((!?<=^|>)" + termino + ")","ig");
var searchFor2 = new RegExp("(" + termino + "(?=<|$))","ig");
var searchFor3 = new RegExp("(!?<=^|[\\s\\.;,])" + termino + "(?=[\\s\\.;,]|$)","ig");
but those 3 don't cover all the alternatives.
Edit: Im working with javascript:
<script>
container.find("p, span, div, .texto,").each(function() {
var containerText = $(this).html();
for (var i = 0; i < terms.length; i++) {
var termino = terms[i];
// 1st issue ">termino" was remplaced for: ">Pedro"
var searchFor = new RegExp("((!?<=^|>)" + termino + ")","ig");
containerText = containerText.replace(searchFor,">Pedroedro");
// 2nd issue "termino<" was remplaced for: "Pedro"
var searchFor2 = new RegExp("(" + termino + "(?=<|$))","ig");
containerText = containerText.replace(searchFor2,"Pedro");
// 3rd issue "[\.\s,;:]termino[\.\s,;:]
var searchFor3 = new RegExp("(!?<=^|[\\s\\.;,])" + termino + "(?=[\\s \\.;,]|$)","ig");
containerText = containerText.replace(searchFor3," Pedro");
};
$(this).html(containerText);
});
</script>

Answer 1

A few things -
Welcome to stackoverflow!
Please, search for questions before asking. There are numerous results for parsing
xml with regex.
Don't use regex expressions for parsing xml/html! Try xpath!
var termino = // how ever you were defining before...
// Give me all divs, where the text content contains value of "termino"
var iterator = document.evaluate('//div/text()[contains(.,' + termino + ')]', documentNode, null, XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_ITERATOR_TYPE, null );
try {
// init thisNode to the first item in the iterator
var thisNode = iterator.iterateNext();
// go through all items, alert their content (which should contain termino)
while (thisNode) {
alert( thisNode.textContent );
thisNode = iterator.iterateNext();
}
}
catch (e) {
dump( 'Error: Document tree modified during iteration ' + e );
}