Re: Regular expression

[repellent]

in reply to Regular expression

use XML::Twig;

XML::Twig->new(
    twig_handlers => {
        span => sub { $_->replace_with($_->children_copy) },
    },
)->parse(<<'XML')->print;
<d>
  <span>
    foobar
    <span>
      <baz>bax</baz>
      <span style="color:#000000;">
        <ix:nonNumeric name="uk-bus:PrincipalLocation-CityOrTown">Lond
+on</ix:nonNumeric>
      </span>
    </span>
  </span>
</d>
XML

print "\n";

__END__
<d>
    foobar
    <baz>bax</baz><ix:nonNumeric name="uk-bus:PrincipalLocation-CityOr
+Town">London</ix:nonNumeric></d>

[mirod]

If the input is not well-formed XML but HTML, you can use parse_html instead of parse in order to internally convert the HTML to XHTML before processing.