On 05/12/2019, at 14:26, cosmo <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > thx for answering but it seems you did not read my post, i don't want to > convert the xml to text or remove all tags ... i need to find and delete > SPECIFIC tags WHILE PRESERVING ALL OTHER TAGS
Hey Cosmo, Clearly I did read your post, because I responded to it – but obviously I overlooked this requirement. > Note that the code above is just a very simple example to illustrate, it gets > much more complicated than that with tables, mathml, figures etc inside the > tags to be removes ... there isn't a repetitive pattern to the content that > can be inside the tags to be stripped, it could be anything so i want to be > sure that i don't delete anything else than the enclosing tag. You really can't do this job with a regular expression search and replace, because of the unpredictable complexity of the tag. You should post one or two examples of really complex tags, because it might be possible to use AppleScript or Perl to do the job. -- Best Regards, Chris -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/0855D350-663B-406F-AAE2-7661CDD941FC%40suddenlink.net.
