How can I remove unused, nested HTML span tags with a Perl regex?

Question

I\'m trying to remove unused spans (i.e. those with no attribute) from HTML files, having already cleaned up all the attributes I didn\'t want with other regular expressions

Answer 1

Don't use regexps for processing (HTML ==) XML. You never know what input you'll get. Consider this, valid HTML:

a b c de

Would you have thought of that?

Use an XML processor instead.

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