ishamid wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> On Dec 2, 10:56 am, Paul Lutus wrote:
>
> If you will post a short, complete data example, even just one record
> as it
> > appears in your database, so we don't have to try to read between the
> > lines, someone here will be happy to produce a way to filter the data in
> > the way you want.
>
> Ok, here are 4 bibliography entries. I just did a follow-up posting
> with more detail (including the full script I'm trying to modify) so
> you may prefer to respond to that one. Thank you very much for your
> help!.
>
> ======================
> <text:p text:style-name="ID">[<text:sequence text:ref-name="refAutoNr0"
> text:name="AutoNr" text:formula="ooow:AutoNr+1"
> style:num-format="1">1</text:sequence></text:p>
>    <text:p text:style-name="P6">&apos;Abd al-Râziq, Ahmad</text:p>
>    <text:p text:style-name="reference"><text:span
> text:style-name="T3">Die al-Azhar-Moschee</text:span><text:span
> text:style-name="T4">., in, </text:span><text:span
> text:style-name="T3">&quot;Schätze der Kalifen: Islamische Kunst zur
> Fatimidenzeit.&quot;</text:span><text:span text:style-name="T4">,
> Herausgegeben von W. Seipel, Vienna: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien;
> Milan: Skira, 1998, pp. 144-147</text:span></text:p>
>    <text:p text:style-name="P7"/>
>    <text:p text:style-name="P7"/>
>    <text:p text:style-name="ID"><text:span
> text:style-name="T5">[</text:span><text:sequence
> text:ref-name="refAutoNr1" text:name="AutoNr"
> text:formula="ooow:AutoNr+1"
> style:num-format="1">2</text:sequence></text:p>
>    <text:p text:style-name="P8">&apos;Abd al-Râziq, Ahmad</text:p>
>    <text:p text:style-name="reference"><text:span
> text:style-name="T6">La mosquée al-Azhar</text:span><text:span
> text:style-name="T7">., in, </text:span><text:span
> text:style-name="T6">&quot;Trésors fatimides du Caire. Exposition
> pr¥Æ¥¥sent¥Æ¥¥e ¥Æ  l&apos;Institut du Monde Arabe ...
> </text:span><text:span
> text:style-name="T8">1998.&quot;</text:span><text:span
> text:style-name="T9">, Paris: Institut du Monde Arabe, 1998, pp.
> 147-149</text:span></text:p>
>    <text:p text:style-name="P7"/>
>    <text:p text:style-name="P7"/>
>    <text:p text:style-name="ID">[<text:sequence
> text:ref-name="refAutoNr2" text:name="AutoNr"
> text:formula="ooow:AutoNr+1"
> style:num-format="1">3</text:sequence></text:p>
>    <text:p text:style-name="Standard"><text:s/>&apos;Amri, Husay
> &apos;Abdallah</text:p>
>    <text:p text:style-name="reference"><text:span
> text:style-name="T10">The Text of an Unpublished Fatwa of the Scholar
> al-Maqbali (d. 1108/1728) Concerning the Legal Position of the
> Batiniyyah (Isma&apos;iliyyah) of the People of Hamdan</text:span>.,
> Translated by A.B.D.R. Eagle, <text:span text:style-name="Style2">New
> Arabian Studies</text:span>, 2 (1994), pp. 165-174.</text:p>
>    <text:p text:style-name="reference"/>
>    <text:p text:style-name="reference"/>
>    <text:p text:style-name="ID">[<text:sequence
> text:ref-name="refAutoNr3" text:name="AutoNr"
> text:formula="ooow:AutoNr+1"
> style:num-format="1">4</text:sequence></text:p>
>    <text:p text:style-name="Standard">Abarahamov, Binyamin</text:p>
>    <text:p text:style-name="reference"><text:span
> text:style-name="T10">An Isma&apos;ili Epistemology: The Case of
> Al-Da&apos;i al-Mutlaq &apos;Ali b. Muhammad b. al-Walid</text:span>.,
> <text:span text:style-name="Style2">Journal of Semitic
> Studies</text:span>, 41ii (1996), pp. 263-273.</text:p>
>    <text:p text:style-name="reference"/>
>    <text:p text:style-name="reference"/>
>
> ======================

puts DATA.read.gsub( %r{<(text:sequence)\s[^>]*>(.*?)</\1>}i,
  "\\starttext\n\\2\n\\stoptext" )

--- output -----

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1
\stoptext</text:p>
   <text:p text:style-name="P6">&apos;Abd al-R\xC3\xA2ziq,
Ahmad</text:p>
   <text:p text:style-name="reference"><text:span
text:style-name="T3">Die al-Azhar-Moschee</text:span><text:span
text:style-name="T4">., in, </text:span><text:span
text:style-name="T3">&quot;Sch\xC3\xA4tze der Kalifen: Islamische Kunst
zur
Fatimidenzeit.&quot;</text:span><text:span text:style-name="T4">,
Herausgegeben von W. Seipel, Vienna: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien;
Milan: Skira, 1998, pp. 144-147</text:span></text:p>
   <text:p text:style-name="P7"/>
   <text:p text:style-name="P7"/>
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text:style-name="T5">[</text:span>\starttext
2
\stoptext</text:p>
   <text:p text:style-name="P8">&apos;Abd al-R\xC3\xA2ziq,
Ahmad</text:p>
   <text:p text:style-name="reference"><text:span
text:style-name="T6">La mosqu\xC3(C)e al-Azhar</text:span><text:span
text:style-name="T7">., in, </text:span><text:span
text:style-name="T6">&quot;Tr\xC3(C)sors fatimides du Caire. Exposition
pr\xC3(C)sent\xC3(C)e \xC3  l&apos;Institut du Monde Arabe ...
</text:span><text:span
text:style-name="T8">1998.&quot;</text:span><text:span
text:style-name="T9">, Paris: Institut du Monde Arabe, 1998, pp.
147-149</text:span></text:p>
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&apos;Abdallah</text:p>
   <text:p text:style-name="reference"><text:span
text:style-name="T10">The Text of an Unpublished Fatwa of the Scholar
al-Maqbali (d. 1108/1728) Concerning the Legal Position of the
Batiniyyah (Isma&apos;iliyyah) of the People of Hamdan</text:span>.,
Translated by A.B.D.R. Eagle, <text:span text:style-name="Style2">New
Arabian Studies</text:span>, 2 (1994), pp. 165-174.</text:p>
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text:style-name="T10">An Isma&apos;ili Epistemology: The Case of
Al-Da&apos;i al-Mutlaq &apos;Ali b. Muhammad b. al-Walid</text:span>.,
<text:span text:style-name="Style2">Journal of Semitic
Studies</text:span>, 41ii (1996), pp. 263-273.</text:p>
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