regular expressions to parse

[anand1107]

I'm working on regular expressions to parse html tags into the wiki syntax. i.e. for example, if i encounter text like - some <b> more </b> text, my regular expression should be able to convert that to some 'more' text. Simple things like the above, i was able to write but the real problem lies when it comes to parsing lists and tables.
For example, i write down some text as follows -
# number one
# number two
# number three
i want to be able to convert that into html code -
<ol>
<li>number one</li>
<li>number two</li>
<li>number three</li>
</ol>
i was able to find out the first occurance and last occurance of #, append a <ol> there and get the number one/two/three within <li></li>. So far so good...But the problem occurs when i have multiple lists on the same page. Obviously, my search for the first and last occurance of # will not be as desired as there are two lists in the page. i.e.
# number one
# number two
some text here
# number one
# number two
then unfortunately my parsing into html yields me
<ol>
<li>number one</li>
<li>number two</li>
some text here
<li>number one</li>
<li>number two</li>
</ol>
and not as
<ol>
<li>number one</li>
<li>number two</li>
</ol>
some text here
<ol>
<li>number one</li>
<li>number two</li>
</ol>
Can anybody help???
I'm trying out the above using VB.Net as well as javascript. So any help in either of the languages is most welcome...

[karinne]

Please post you question in the right forumz!

I've moved them to the Web Development section!