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Extracting text between two strings, first instance only

There are a lot of ways to extract text from between two strings, but what if those strings occur multiple times and you only want the text from the first two strings? I can't seem to find anything to work here. I'm using sed to process the text after it's extracted, so I prefer a sed answer, but whatever works is fine with me.

It's an xml file, the text is between string tags (hope that doesn't cause any confusion). The text may be 1 or 100 lines long and may also contain whitespace, linebreaks, indentions, etc, which shouldn't matter much, but the location of the tags may seem fairly random in relation to the actual text and not a clean "^tagTEXTtag$". I want everything, whitespace, blank lines, etc, between the first open and close tags.

Code:

         <string>This is
         the text 
         that I want
          
          </string>

          <string>text I don't want</string>

         <string>more text
I don't want</string>

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strings.h

strings.h(3HEAD)                                                      Headers                                                     strings.h(3HEAD)

NAME

       strings.h, strings - string operations

SYNOPSIS

       #include <strings.h>

DESCRIPTION

       The size_t type specified in <strings.h> is defined through typedef as described in <stddef.h>.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability          |Standard                     |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       ffs(3C), string(3C), stddef.h(3HEAD), attributes(5), standards(5)

SunOS 5.10                                                          10 Sep 2004                                                   strings.h(3HEAD)

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