Why so complicated?

[foosion]

Originally Posted by Turtle91

That’s what I do most of the time (regex)… BUT … you need to be very careful of nested tags especially if you are searching for <span>s because that regex will pickup the first end tag not necessarily the correct one.

As Diap mentioned, his plugin actually parses the html to avoid that issue.

I'm not sure which post you're responding to. Assume it's recent:

I can't recall ever seeing a nested h# tag and Jon's example wasn't nested.

I'm not sure it's even possible to do nested properly with standard regex. I started a post asking about that and so far I've gotten the expected lack of response.

Anyway, agreed.

[DNSB]

I'm not certain if the calibre flavour of DiapDealer's tool will handle regex but the Sigil version does. For a <tag>blah blah blah</tag> I will use regex but where nested tags come into play, I will go with TagMechanic. I remember way back (2012, Sigil 0.5.3???) when I looked at the dog's breakfast that I created using a regex search/replace covering nested divs and exited without saving.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Turtle91

That’s what I do most of the time (regex)… BUT … you need to be very careful of nested tags especially if you are searching for <span>s because that regex will pickup the first end tag not necessarily the correct one.

As Diap mentioned, his plugin actually parses the html to avoid that issue.

I agree. I use Diap's plugin for divs and spans because it works better then risking regex.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DNSB

I'm not certain if the calibre flavour of DiapDealer's tool will handle regex but the Sigil version does. For a <tag>blah blah blah</tag> I will use regex but where nested tags come into play, I will go with TagMechanic. I remember way back (2012, Sigil 0.5.3???) when I looked at the dog's breakfast that I created using a regex search/replace covering nested divs and exited without saving.

The calibre version of Diaps Editing Toolbag does allow regex for the search.