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AlanHK · 07-27-2014, 02:55 AM

I've got a book file full of code like :

Code:

<p class="calibre2"><span class="none2">blah blah blah</span></p>

Is there a way I can remove these spans, (the "none2" ones) to get

Code:

<p class="calibre2">blah blah blah</p>

without messing up any other spans?

I can remove the opening by simple s&r, but then I would have orphaned </span>, but could not just delete </span> without screwing up other spans.

I could change "<span class="none2">" to "<span>" and neuter them, but I really hate to leave junk code in the file.

-- PS, I know what regex are,and have written some simple ones, but parsing HTML is a bit hairy.

07-27-2014, 02:55 AM	#1
AlanHK Guru Posts: 681 Karma: 929286 Join Date: Apr 2014 Device: PW-3, iPad, Android phone	s&r for paired tags I've got a book file full of code like : Code: <p class="calibre2"><span class="none2">blah blah blah</span></p> Is there a way I can remove these spans, (the "none2" ones) to get Code: <p class="calibre2">blah blah blah</p> without messing up any other spans? I can remove the opening by simple s&r, but then I would have orphaned </span>, but could not just delete </span> without screwing up other spans. I could change "<span class="none2">" to "<span>" and neuter them, but I really hate to leave junk code in the file. -- PS, I know what regex are,and have written some simple ones, but parsing HTML is a bit hairy. Last edited by AlanHK; 07-27-2014 at 03:23 AM.