sample_rules_edit.xml

<txt2XML root_tag="XMLMail">

  <!-- Sample_rules.xml. For use in the txt2XML
       GUI tutorial. These rules are designed to 
       ingest mailing list digests into XML (database).
   -->

  <!-- first, remove the preamble, no info we want there -->
  <ignore end="-{10,80}\n"/>

   <!-- loop thru document, tagging up each email -->
  <repeat>
     <!-- each email begins with "Subject:" line and
          ends with 10 to 80 dashes and a newline 
      -->
     <match tag="email" start="^\s*?Subject:" end="\s*?-{3,80}\n" statusOfStart="accept" required="no">
        <match tag="subject" start="^\s*?Subject:\s?" end="\n"/>
        <match tag="sender" start="From:\s?" end="\n"/>
        <match tag="time" start="Date:\s?" end="\n"/>
        <match tag="number" start="X-Message-Number:\s?" end="\n"/>
        <match tag="body"/>
     </match>

  </repeat>

  <!-- remove last stuff w/ trash match -->
  <match tag="TRASH"/>

</txt2XML>