Only keep text that is in certain span tags?

Question

Hi,
Does anyone know if there is a way to do this with find and
replace? Go through a document and keep all text that is within a
span tag with the class "test"? For example, if this is the
document:
<span class="test">one</span>
adsfasdfasd
<span class="asdfds">two</span>
adsfadsf
<span class="test">three</span>
adfasdfas
<span class="asfdasdf">four</span>
Then it should look like this when finished:
<span class="test">one</span>
<span class="test">three</span>
Thanks, Matt

Answer 1

I would do three steps -
1. Find the tags you want to keep and change them to some
other tag, e.g.,
<span> => <h6> | <address> | something
like that.
2. Strip all the remaining span tags.
3. Revert the first change.
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> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know if there is a way to do this with find
and replace? Go
> through a document and keep all text that is within a
span tag with the
> class
> "test"? For example, if this is the document:
>
> <span class="test">one</span>
> adsfasdfasd
> <span class="asdfds">two</span>
> adsfadsf
> <span class="test">three</span>
> adfasdfas
> <span class="asfdasdf">four</span>
>
> Then it should look like this when finished:
>
> <span class="test">one</span>
> <span class="test">three</span>
>
> Thanks, Matt
>
>