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    copied!<blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags">RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>I'm trying to write a bit of regex which would go through some text, written by our Editors, and apply an <code>&lt;acronym&gt;</code> tag to the first instance it finds of an abbreviation set we hold in our "Glossary of Terms". </p> <p>So for this example I've used the abbreviation <code>ITS</code>.</p> <p>1st thing I thought I'd do is setup an example with a mix of scenerios I could test against, i.e. <code>ITS</code> sitting with punctuation, in HTML tags &amp; ones that we've applied this to already (in other words the script has run through this before, so no need to do again).</p> <p>I'm almost there but just got stuck at the last point :-(.</p> <p>Here's the regex I've got so far - <code>&lt;[^&lt;|]+?&gt;?&gt;ITS&lt;[^&lt;]+?&gt;|ITS</code></p> <p>The Example - FROM ( EVERY <em>ITS</em> IN <strong>BOLD</strong> TO BE WRAPPED WITH ACRONYM ):</p> <blockquote> <p><code>I want you to tag this</code><strong>ITS</strong><code>, but not this wrapped one - &lt;acronym title="ITS" id="thisIsATest"&gt;ITS&lt;/acronym&gt;</code></p> <p>This is another test as I still want to update <code>&lt;p&gt;</code><strong>ITS</strong><code>&lt;/p&gt;</code> that have other HTML tags wrapped around them.`</p> <p><strong>ITS</strong> want ones that start sentences and ones that finish <strong>ITS</strong>. <strong>ITS</strong>, and ones which are wrapped in punctuation.`</p> <p><code>Test link:</code> <code>&lt;a href="index.cfm&gt;ITS&lt;/a&gt;</code></p> </blockquote> <hr> <p>AND I WANT THIS CHANGE TO :</p> <blockquote> <p><code>I want you to tag this &lt;acronym title="ITS"&gt;ITS&lt;/acronym&gt;</code>, but not this wrapped one - <code>&lt;acronym title="ITS"&gt;ITS&lt;/acronym&gt;</code></p> <p><code>This is another test as I still want to update &lt;acronym title="ITS"&gt;ITS&lt;/acronym&gt;</code> that have other HTML tags wrapped around them.`</p> <p><code>&lt;acronym title="ITS"&gt;ITS&lt;/acronym&gt; want ones that start sentences and ones that finish &lt;acronym title="ITS"&gt;ITS&lt;/acronym&gt;. &lt;acronym title="ITS"&gt;ITS&lt;/acronym&gt;, and ones which are wrapped in punctuation.</code></p> <p><code>Test link:</code> <code>&lt;acronym title="ITS"&gt;&lt;a href="index.cfm&gt;ITS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/acronym&gt;</code></p> </blockquote> <hr> <p>Are there any Reg Ex experts out there that could help me finish this off? Any other hints tips would also be appreciated.</p> <p>** UPDATE ** Don't know if this helps but this would find the only in that paragraph :</p> <p><code>&lt;acronym[^&lt;]*ITS&lt;/acronym&gt;</code></p> <p>and this will find all the ITS :</p> <p><code>&lt;[^&lt;]*&gt;ITS&lt;[^&lt;]*&gt;|ITS</code></p> <p>What I really need is a way of combining these to say find all the ITSs but exclude those in tags.</p> <p>Thanks a lot, James</p> <p>P.S. This is going to be placed in a ColdFusion application if that helps anyone in specific syntax.</p> <hr> <p>Here's the HTML I'm trying to parse:</p> <p><a href="http://pastebin.com/5k32aG8i" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://pastebin.com/5k32aG8i</a></p>
 

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