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It works here with the sample text you gave earlier.

Has your search pattern got a space at the end of it? It shouldn't have.

There is no space at the end of my search pattern.

Did you deselect the option '.' does not match a newline character ?
Yes, I deselected this option. Still, it doesn ...

F ind what: <s>(?!.*<IINF>.*).*?</s>
R eplace with: [nothing]

[ X ] Regular e x pression
[ X ] Rep l acement format

Options
[ ] '.' does not match a newline character [i.e., not selected]
Many thanks for the quick reply. Tried it, but it didn't seem to be working. This is the log I got ...

Hi All,

I have 400+ XML files, and I need to discard those parts of these which do not contain an element embedded in another element that spans many lines.

More specifically, I need to keep <s> elements such as

<s>
<NOOJLU LEMMA="," CAT="WPUNCT">,</NOOJLU>
<NOOJLU LEMMA="mint" CAT="Con">mint ...