If your data will always be in the above format (all valid c identifiers with no whitespace), you can use a very simple regular expression. Try this:

Find:(>)(\w+)(<)
Replace:$1$3

That will eliminate the (\w+) (one or more valid c identifiers).

Alternatively, you could do this:

Find:(>)([^<]+?)(<)
Replace:$1$3

But it's a little trickier, since you accepting a much wider range of characters, which for XML shouldn't be a problem. Unless of course, you're using CDATA.


If you need something smarter, you'll need to write a macro.