Regex XML Selection Extract Element

I am trying make a regex selection starting from BYPASS 0 0 0 up to and including the section where it says WAK 0 0 Here is what I have (?s)(?=BYPASS).*?(WAK....) I think my syntax for python use is incorrect also here is how I use it in python script re.split(r'(?s)(?=BYPASS).*?(WAK....)', r) I believe this is causing the problem for me (?s) resulting with incorrect regex selections.

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  >
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  ENVATTACH 3
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  PEAKGAIN 1
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  PANLAW 1
  PROJOFFS 0 0 0
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  GRID 3199 8 1 8 1 0 0 0
  TIMEMODE 1 5 -1 30 0 0 -1
  VIDEO_CONFIG 0 0 256
  PANMODE 3
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  ZOOM 100 0 0
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  SMPTESYNC 0 30 100 40 1000 300 0 0 1 0 0
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  <RECORD_CFG
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  >
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  >
  RENDER_FILE ""
  RENDER_PATTERN mask
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    ZXZhdyAAAA==
  >
  LOCK 1
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    VOL 0.25 0.125
    FREQ 800 1600 1
    BEATLEN 4
    SAMPLES "" ""
    PATTERN 2863311530 2863311529
    MULT 1
  >
  GLOBAL_AUTO -1
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    EGUID {07BFCFC9-6DA0-4D9C-8821-7D1555F3F3F8}
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  >
  <TEMPOENVEX
    EGUID {9059CD91-68BB-42A7-8E08-BCDDCB3AC50B}
    ACT 0 -1
    VIS 1 0 1
    LANEHEIGHT 0 0
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    DEFSHAPE 1 -1 -1
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  >
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    NAME dac
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    VOLPAN 1 0 -1 -1 1
    MUTESOLO 0 0 0
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    PLAYOFFS 0 1
    ISBUS 0 0
    BUSCOMP 0 0 0 0 0
    SHOWINMIX 1 0.6667 0.5 1 0.5 -1 -1 -1
    SEL 0
    REC 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
    VU 2
    TRACKHEIGHT 138 0 0 0 0 0
    INQ 0 0 0 0.5 100 0 0 100
    NCHAN 4
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      <VST "VST: FreeG (Sonalksis)" "Sonalksis FreeG Stereo (64 bit).dll" 0 "" 1181894483<56535446724753667265656700000000> ""
        U0dyRu5e7f4CAAAAAQAAAAAAAAACAAAAAAAAAAIAAAABAAAAAAAAAAIAAAAAAAAAPAAAAAEAAAAAABAA
        aH5iPgAAAD8AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAgAAAAIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
        AE5vbmUAEAAAAA==
      >
      PRESETNAME None
      FLOATPOS 0 0 0 0
      FXID {B7036F0D-9C41-461A-B1F6-CEB9D441E7EF}
      WAK 0 0
      BYPASS 0 0 0
      <VST "VST: FreeG (Sonalksis)" "Sonalksis FreeG Stereo (64 bit).dll" 0 "" 1181894483<56535446724753667265656700000000> ""
        U0dyRu5e7f4CAAAAAQAAAAAAAAACAAAAAAAAAAIAAAABAAAAAAAAAAIAAAAAAAAAPAAAAAEAAAAAABAA
        uDDmPQAAAD8AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAgAAAAIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
        AE5vbmUAEAAAAA==
      >
      PRESETNAME None
      FLOATPOS 0 0 0 0
      FXID {9EEDFB75-3908-406D-BB87-69B4E868EDEA}
      WAK 0 0
      BYPASS 0 0 0
      <VST "VST: FreeG (Sonalksis)" "Sonalksis FreeG Stereo (64 bit).dll" 0 "" 1181894483<56535446724753667265656700000000> ""
        U0dyRu5e7f4CAAAAAQAAAAAAAAACAAAAAAAAAAIAAAABAAAAAAAAAAIAAAAAAAAAPAAAAAEAAAAAABAA
        I8XFPgAAAD8AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAgAAAAIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
        AE5vbmUAEAAAAA==
      >
      PRESETNAME None
      FLOATPOS 0 0 0 0
      FXID {B0417D0E-CEA3-4E1F-9BF3-7D4DCE72AC39}
      WAK 0 0
    >
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      FADEIN 1 0.01 0 1 0 0 0
      FADEOUT 1 0.01 0 1 0 0 0
      MUTE 0 0
      SEL 1
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      IID 1
      NAME dac.wav
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      SOFFS 0
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      CHANMODE 0
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      >
    >
  >
>

Answer

I am not sure what you mean by “regex selection”. The text you want can be matched with the regex (?s)(BYPASS 0 0 0.*?WAK 0 0) where:

"(?s)" signifies that the '.' char can match any character, including a newline
"("    begin capturing group
"BYPASS 0 0 0" the literal characters
".*?"  zero or more times any char, including newlines
"WAK 0 0" the literal characters
")"    end capturing group

You use re.split(regex, txt) that splits the string txt at the points specified by regex and returns an array of the new strings.

e.g.

x = re.split("a","bananas")
# x = ['b','n','n',s']

x = re.split("(a)", "bananas")
# x = ['b','a','n','a','n','a','s']

If what you want is to get the parts that start from BYPASS 0 0 0 and end with WAK 0 0, you can use re.findall(regex, txt) that returns all the parts from txt that match regex.

e.g.

x = re.findall(r"bw*s", "bananas, beers and bootstrap 5")
# x = ['bananas', 'beers', 'boots']

Or in your case

x = re.findall("(?s)(BYPASS 0 0 0.*?WAK 0 0)", txt)

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