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In this tutorial I will show you how to parse or process an xml document to display the data on a page in html form. It can be used to filter raw RSS feeds, set up a cool sitemap on your blog or even the groundwork for your own search auto complete.

The main purpose of regular expressions, also called regex or regexp, is to efficiently search for patterns in a given text. These search patterns are written using a special format which a regular expression parser understands.

jParse is a jQuery plugin that allows us to quickly and easily parse XML. The plugin easily parse XML that has been fetched with an Ajax request.

Regular expressions are a very useful tool for developers. They allow to find, identify or replace text, words or any kind of characters. This article compiles 15+ extremely useful regular expressions that any web developer should have in his toolkit.