How to trim spaces in xml tags using regular expression in notepad++?
I am trying to trim a space in an XML tag, this is an example of what I have: <xmlT ag> content between tag </xmlTa g> to: <xmlTag> content between tag </xmlTag> This is the expression that I wrote for that: Find: [<](\w)* (\w)*[>]|[<][/](\w)* (\w)*[>] Replace: \1\2 but is not working as expected. Is there any other workaround for this? If the tags only have one space in them and no attributes, this will work find: <(/?)(\w*) (\w*)> replace: <\1\2\3> Using a LookAhead we can repair any number of spaces in a tag: Search for: \s+(?=[\s\w]*>) Replace with nothing Explained demo here: http://www