[Archivesspace_Users_Group] batch delete dates saga continues

[Olivia S Solis]

Amendment. This should work
:
<unitda[^>]+>[^<]+<\/unitdate>

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 9:23 AM, Olivia S Solis <livsolis at utexas.edu> wrote:

> Hi Lydia,
>
> Maybe try:
>
> <unitda[^>]+>.+<\/unitda[^>]+>
>
> I think it might be finding the first unitdate begin tag and identifying
> all text through the last unitdate end tag. The [^>] indicates any
> character that is not end end angle bracket.
>
> Thanks,
> Olivia
>
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 9:17 AM, Tang, Lydia <ltang5 at lib.msu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I just wanted to toss out my latest saga of wrangling the dates field for
>> this particular collection.  Instead of opening and editing each record, I
>> exported it to EAD and have it in an XML editor.  All I would like to do is
>> batch delete everything like this: <unitdate>.*</unitdate> but so far it
>> just wants to highlight and delete the whole range (including everything
>> else) of where these tags exist in the finding aid.  I just wanted to toss
>> it out there, in case any smart people know the magic command.  In
>> searching around, all I get are doing command-line options and it seems
>> like it should be simpler than this!
>> <thanks>
>> Lydia
>>
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Olivia Solis, MSIS
Metadata Coordinator
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
The University of Texas at Austin
2300 Red River St. Stop D1100
Austin TX, 78712-1426
(512) 232-8013
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