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sed to replace a line with 2 or more different lines in same file

i have something like this...

Code:

cat filename.txt
<complexTypename="abc">
bklah vlah
blah 
blha blha blah
blha
 
</complexType >
<complexTypename="def">
bklah vlah
blah 
blha blha blah
blha
 
</complexType >
.
.
.and so on.. its a very large file

no i need to replace end of complex type that is

Code:

</complexType >

with
below three lines

Code:

 
<attribute name="123" type="string"></attribute>

Code:

<attribute name="456" type="string"></attribute>
</complexType >

or you could say put the two attributes lines just above </complexType >

this could be easily done in notepad++ but i want to do it in shell... and this attributes can be lenghty and cover different lines too..
like

Code:

 
<attribute name="456" type="string">
blah blha blha
blha blha
</attribute>

any help is deeply appreciated :-)

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