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@Aia:

Thanks for the info. Doesn't seem quite what I was after; but I think I cobbled together a quick "trick" which seems pretty foolproof (indeed, it worked for me Smilie )
Code:
sed -i '/<property name="something">[[:space:]]*$/,/<\/property>[[:space:]]*$/{s/.*/~~~~~~~~~~/}' /path_to/filename.xml
sed -i '/~~~~~~~~~~[[:space:]]*$/,/<\/property>[[:space:]]*$/d' /path_to/filename.xml

Humble, I know; but also perhaps a bit like letting some of the air out of the tires on a stuck lorry run under a bridge which is an inch too low Smilie


Again, thanks so much; and have a great week --
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lire::report::section

Section(3pm)						  LogReport's Lire Documentation					      Section(3pm)

NAME

       Lire::Section - Interface to the content of the section's element.

SYNOPSIS

	   my $section = Lire::ReportParser::ReportBuilder( "report.xml" );

	   foreach my $s ( $report->sections() ) {
	       print "Section: '", $s->title(), "' has ", scalar $s->subreports(),
		   " subreports in it
";
	   }

DESCRIPTION

       This class offers an API to the section's elements of a Lire report.

CONSTRUCTOR

   new( [$title] )
       Creates a new Lire::Report::Section. The section's title will be set to the $title parameter if present.

OBJECT METHODS

   title( [$title] )
       Returns the section's title, if it has one. The section's title will be changed $title if that parameter is set.

   description( [$description] )
       Returns this section's description. The description is encoded in DocBook XML.

       If the $description parameter is set, this method will set this section's description to this new value. If the $description parameter is
       undef, that description will be removed.

   subreports()
       Returns the subreport's included in that section. This will be an array of Lire::Report::Subreport objects.

   add_subreport( $subreport )
       Adds a subreport to this report. The $subreport parameter should be a Lire::Report::Subreport object.

   subreports_by_type( $type )
       Returns all the subreports in this section of a the type $type. The subreport's type is the id of the report specification used to compute
       the reports. The subreports are returned as an array of Lire::Report::Subreport objects.

SEE ALSO

       Lire::ReportParser::ReportBuilder(3pm) Lire::Report(3pm) Lire::Report::Subreport(3pm) Lire::Report::Entry(3pm) Lire::Report::Group(3pm)

VERSION

       $Id: Section.pm,v 1.16 2006/07/23 13:16:31 vanbaal Exp $

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       http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.

AUTHOR

       Francis J. Lacoste <flacoste@logreport.org>

Lire 2.1.1							    2006-07-23							      Section(3pm)