wait - i re-read your problem statement and read it as removing the structured-content tags and attributes only... is that correct?
if so, this will remove all opening and closing structured-content tags and their attributes only and leave everything else: <\/*structured-content[^>]*> "find any amount of leading slashes followed by 'structured-content' followed by any amount of anything as long as it's not a closing tag greater than sign" On Sunday, May 12, 2019 at 1:26:42 PM UTC-7, Christopher Stone wrote: > > On 05/12/2019, at 14:26, cosmo <[email protected] <javascript:>> 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/2d547d3d-1cfe-46a7-a5d6-d06f9817c8af%40googlegroups.com.
