Get Value For a XML Element

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   *
   * This method uses Regular Expression to extract content of an XML element 
   * from a XML string
   *
   * @param xmlString
   * @param tagName
   * @return
   *
   */
  public static String getValueForXmlElement(String xmlString, String tagName)
  {
      String xmlTagValue = null;
      try
      {
        Pattern patter = Pattern.compile("(<|([A-Za-z0-9.]*:))" + tagName 
                                      + "(>|(\\s[\\sA-Za-z0-9./:\"=']*>))(.*?)</");
        Matcher matcher = patter.matcher(xmlString);
        while (matcher.find())
        {
          xmlTagValue = matcher.group(5);
        }
      }
      catch(Exception e){;}
      return xmlTagValue;
  }