Regular expressions: how to match a word from an outside of given html tah?

Question

Let's say that I have an HTML markup like this:

<p>
    <h1>Some header, which I don't want to match</h1>
    Some text - match it.
    <a href="some-file.html">Some link. Don't match neither href nor link text.<a>
    <span>Some word, which needs to be matched</span>
</p>

In few words, I want to match some word in whole of the content, except given html tags (and their attributes). In given example I want to exclude h1 and a tags.

Expected result after replacing 'Some' by 'Test':

<p>
    <h1>Some header, which I don't want to match</h1>
    Test text - match it.
    <a href="some-file.html">Some link. Don't match neither href nor link text.<a>
    <span>Test word, which needs to be matched</span>
</p>

Yeah thanks, this is some solution, but still I would be happy to know a regex way of solving it :) — Piotrycjan, Jan 27 '14 at 10:37
@user1832207: even if you really like to shave your beard with a spoon - it's silly as soon as there is a razor blade available. But you still can continue wasting your time if you wish so. — zerkms, Jan 27 '14 at 10:50

Sujith PS · Answer 1 · 2014-01-27T11:00:12.410

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You can use : <(a|h1)[^\>]*?>(some)[^\<]*?<\/\1> to match the lines containing some and between html tags .

And check if a line not satisfying this regex , then replace word some (if any ) with your required replacement text.

Demo

Explanation :

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edited Jan 27 '14 at 11:00

answered Jan 27 '14 at 10:48

Sujith PS

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"to exclude h1 and a tags" – zerkms Jan 27 '14 at 10:49
Yes, it will exclude almost all html tags – Sujith PS Jan 27 '14 at 10:53
OP doesn't want to exclude all html tags, but some – zerkms Jan 27 '14 at 10:55
that's true. Want to choose which tags to exclude. – Piotrycjan Jan 27 '14 at 10:56

Regular expressions: how to match a word from an outside of given html tah?

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