From: Jan Ask <janaskhoej@...>
Date: 2007-08-06T10:12:19+09:00
Subject: Re: sgub stretching over several lines

Alex & Sebastian,

Thanks for taking the time to reply. The string.gsub(/start.*end/m, 
'some_value') did indeed help, but I am afraid my problem is a bit more 
complicated.

I am basically trying to cleanup a long xml file. A typical part of the 
string looks like this:

&lt;div class=&quot;field field-type-text field-field-audience&quot;&gt;

  &lt;h3 class=&quot;field-label&quot;&gt;audience&lt;/h3&gt;

  &lt;div class=&quot;field-items&quot;&gt;

          &lt;div class=&quot;field-item&quot;&gt;Public&lt;/div&gt;

      &lt;/div&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div class=&quot;field field-type-text field-field-creator&quot;&gt;
  &lt;h3 class=&quot;field-label&quot;&gt;creator&lt;/h3&gt;
  &lt;div class=&quot;field-items&quot;&gt;
          &lt;div class=&quot;field-item&quot;&gt;Tom Jones&lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;

I am trying to format it like this:
<audience>Public</audience>
<creator>Tom Jones</creator>

So the problem is that the values in the xml change throughout the 
string, so I cannot do a pattern match for them directly. Any ideas 
would be hugely appreciated!

Jan
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