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Best way to convert custom XML to syntax

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So basically I have the XML syntax as a tag, but the tags have no attributes. So, <a>but not <a value='t'>. They regularly close with </a>.

Here is my question. I have something similar to this:

<al>
1. test
2. test2
 test with new line
3.  test3
<al>
    1. test 4
    <al>
        2. test 5
        3. test 6
        4. test 7
    </al>
</al>
4. test 8
</al>

And I want to convert it to:

<al>
<li>test</li>
<li> test2</li>
<li> test with new line</li>
<li>  test3
<al>
    <li> test 4 </li>
    <al>
        <li> test 5</li>
        <li> test 6</li>
        <li> test 7</li>
    </al>
    </li>
</al>
</li>
<li> test 8</li>
</al>

I'm really not looking for a turnkey solution, but rather a push in the right direction. I'm just wondering how people here approach this problem. The only REGEX? to write a complete custom parser for tag syntax without attributes? Deploy existing XML parsers? and etc.

Thanks in advance

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