Regex Tester & Validator
Test, validate and match regular expressions
Test, validate and match regular expressions
This regex matches each node segment in an XPath expression by anchoring on forward slashes or line boundaries, optionally skipping a namespace prefix (e.g., 'ns:' in 'ns:element') and lazily capturing the node name in the named group 'node'. It is typically used with .NET's Regex.Replace to convert namespace-qualified XPath queries like /ns:root/ns:child into namespace-agnostic forms using local-name(), so element matching works regardless of XML namespace declarations.