optimize regex which matches two html tags

((<(\\s*?)(object|OBJECT|EMBED|embed))+(.*?)+((object|OBJECT|EMBED|embed)(\\s*?)>))

I need to get object and embed tags fro开发者_如何学Cm some html files stored locally on disk. I've come up with the above regex to match the tags in java then use matcher.group(1); to get the entire tag and its contents

Can anyone perhaps improve this? Is there anything that stands out immediately to you that i should change?

It does work BTW, just wanting an input to see if it can be better because i'm fairly new to regex myself.

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Yes, here's the improvement:

1. Download a fullworthy Java HTML parser like Jsoup and put it in classpath.

2. Now you can select all <object> and <embed> elements as follows:

   Document document = Jsoup.parse(new File("/path/to/file.html"), "UTF-8");
   Elements elements = document.select("object,embed");
   for (Element element : elements) {
       System.out.println(element.outerHtml());
   }
   

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• Regular Expressions - Now you have two problems
• Parsing HTML - The Cthulhu way
• Pros and cons of HTML parsers in Java