Re: Replacing span tags

From: Chris Hohmann (nospam_at_thankyou.com)
Date: 08/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:15:24 -0700

"Thomas Gullen" <admin@drum-world.com> wrote in message
news:41313400.8050009@drum-world.com...
> Hi David,
>
> Confused as to why this needs to be done, whats wrong with span tags?
> But, you would need to write your own function to acheive the desired
> results.
>
> Read up on searching with regular expressions, and the replace() function.
>
> Tom

In addition to Tom's suggestion, you may also want to consider XSLT if the
data is well formed(i.e. valid XML). As you've already alluded to, regular
expressions are linear in nature and as such are not well suited to nested
structures.

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