[Novalug] Converting HTML with sed and regular expressions

[Jim Ide]

Hello -

I have several HTML files that contain lines similar to these:

<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS, cursive">
<!--
here is a
multi line
comment
-->

I want to:
1. change the <P *> lines to <p>
2. delete the <FONT> elements
3. remove the comments

I am using sed as follows:

sed -f fix.sed.txt < in.html > out.html

fix.sed.txt contains the following:

s/<FONT*>//g
s/<P*>/<p>/g
s/<!--*-->//g

These sed regexps have no effect.  What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for your help.



 
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