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Does any of these sooth your need?

awk '/<\/text>/,/<text>/{next}1' file_name
sed '/<\/text>/,/<text>/d' file_name

A couple of one liners that do the same using awk or sed

paste -d" " file1 file2 | awk '/<header>/,/<\\header>/{next}1' > file3
paste -d" " file1 file2 | sed '/<header>/,/<\\header>/d' > file3